Subject: pkgsrc on case-insensitive filesystem
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: OBATA Akio <obata@lins.jp>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/11/2006 15:59:34
Hi!

Dose pkgsrc support case-insensitive filesystem?

In The pkgsrc guide:

3.3.1 Darwin (Mac OS X)
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Note

You cannot use an ordinary HFS+ file system for pkgsrc, because pkgsrc
currently requires the file system to be case-sensitive. You can, however, use
a case-sensitive HFS+ file system as found in Darwin 7.0 and newer.
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3.3.3.1. When installing Interix/SFU
........
During installation you may be asked whether to enable setuid behavior for
Interix programs, and whether to make pathnames default to case-sensitive.
Setuid should be enabled, and case-sensitivity MUST be enabled. (Without
case-sensitivity, a large number of packages including perl will not build.)


On 1st paragraph, It seems that pkgsrc framework needs case-sensitive.
On 2nd paragraph, It seems to be depending on each packages.

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OBATA Akio / obata@lins.jp