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JennyGee commented on CB-5347:
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Braden, I have multiple copies of the cordova library on my machine (from
latest released to different versions of pre-released). And having multiple
copies with link allows me to "easily" switch from one to another. If you can
suggest another method, I'm open to it.
> Cordova returns unknown errors messages when symlinks are pointing to bad
> locations
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> Key: CB-5347
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5347
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: JennyGee
> Priority: Minor
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. npm install cordova
> 2. cordova create project
> 3. cd project
> 4. cordova platform add firefoxos
> 5. cordova platform remove firefoxos
> 6. mv ~/.cordova/lib/firefoxos/cordova/3.1.0
> ~/.cordova/lib/firefoxos/cordova/3.1.0-orig
> 7. ln -s /no/such/firefoxos ~/.cordova/lib/firefoxos/cordova/3.1.0
> 8. cordova platform add firefoxos
> Actual result:
> Error that comes back that doesn't really say what is wrong:
> shell.js: internal error
> Error: EEXIST, file already exists '~/.cordova/lib/firefoxos/cordova/3.1.0'
> Expected result:
> Some sort of error that says something like this:
> [Error: Unable to fetch platform blackberry10:
> ~/.cordova/lib/firefoxos/cordova/3.1.0 points to non-existent or unreadable
> location: /no/such/firefoxos]
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