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On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> I've observed some ... interesting problems with pkg_add(8):
> 
> * If any component of /usr/pkg (or the path it tries to install in) is
>   a symlink, it just silently fails to do anything -- even though
>   /usr/pkg (or the appropriate path) exists.
> 
> * If any component of /var/db/pkg (or $PKG_DBDIR) is a symlink, it
>   installs the pkg but fails to register it -- even though
>   /var/db/pkg (or $PKG_DBDIR) exists.
> 
> These problems are both fairly user-hostile, especially the former.

I've attached a patch to pkg_* for this, can you please try & tell me if 
this works for you?


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>

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