Subject: Re: pkgsrc on case-insensitive filesystem
To: OBATA Akio <obata@lins.jp>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/11/2006 14:32:16
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:59:58PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> 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.

we can't - it depends on the individual package.

	-is