Subject: Re: pkgsrc on case-insensitive filesystem
To: None <is@netbsd.org>
From: OBATA Akio <obata@lins.jp>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/11/2006 20:59:58
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:09:03 +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 06:00:37PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:43:42 +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 03:59:34PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Dose pkgsrc support case-insensitive filesystem?
> > > 
> > > No, that won't work.
> > 
> > Hmm, What break it?  What will be happend?
> > 
> > At least, It seems to be working on Interix.
> 
> I think it might work sometimes, but not for all packages, and not for
> building them, due to name collisions.

There are three parts:

1 pkgsrc tree
2 wrkobjdir
3 target dir

About 1, we can do so that works with case-insensitive filesystems.
About 2 and 3, depends on each packages if works with case-insensitive
filesystems or not.

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OBATA Akio / obata@lins.jp