Subject: Re: Case-insensitive filesystems
To: Keith W.Shaw <keithws@fork.yi.org>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/17/2002 10:48:03
Keith,
Judging by Amitai's, yymano's experiences and yours, I think we
should be specifying UFS for both pkgsrc and build trees (if
different) - there are a number of things that could otherwise come
back and bite us in the bottom on HFS+.
Regards,
Alistair
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 08:24:13PM -0800, Keith W.Shaw wrote:
> i had this problem too, but i got around it by just creating a disk
> image and formated it with UFS. i keep all my pkg stuff on that
> partition to avoid any further case-sensitivity issues.
>
> keith.
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 08:06 PM, Amitai Schlair wrote:
>
> > Looks like devel/CVS (metadata) got extracted first, and then devel/cvs
> > (package) got extracted into the same directory because it seemed like
> > the right name. Ha ha, we're in wacky HFS+ Land!