>Number:         19673
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       make installworld kills /home symlink
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 04 05:50:00 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Martin Husemann
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6K
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD night-porter.duskware.de 1.6K NetBSD 1.6K (PORTER) #0: Fri Dec 27 19:01:41 CET 2002 martin@insomnia.duskware.de:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/PORTER i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

Running "make installworld" to a INSTALLWORLDDIR where /home is a symlink
(to a shared NFS home, for example), destroys this symlink.

>How-To-Repeat:

rmdir /home
ln -s /wherever/myrealhome /home
make installworld INSTALLWORLDDIR=/

Then check /home and find it's an empty directory.

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
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