On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:51:08PM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> Module Name:	pkgsrc
> Committed By:	joerg
> Date:		Mon Jul 16 20:51:08 UTC 2007
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	pkgsrc/mk: bsd.pkg.mk
> 
> Log Message:
> Change default value of CREATE_WRKDIR_SYMLINK to no. In combination with
> WRKOBJDIR, the pkgsrc tree is now read-only. Brought up multiple times
> on tech-pkg and no major objection.

I don't know when this got changed, but pkgsrc has had read-only building
since some time in 1998. The previous behaviour was to attempt to create
the symbolic link, and don't worry if the link couldn't be created.

Sounds like the previous behaviour got borked somewhere along the line.

Regards,
Alistair

(and, yes, I prefer to have a symbolic link by default, but I suppose
I'm the only one, so I'll grin and bear it. But, believe me, it's so
much easier to find out and fix things if the symbolic link is there.
I don't remember seeing these multiple requests on tech-pkg)