symlinks

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Fri Dec 30 13:06:00 PST 2011


On 2011-12-31 06:55 , Mark Brethen wrote:
> When should sym-links be created? post-destroot? post-activate? If post-destroot, will the links break after activation?

With rare exceptions (e.g. 'port select'), you're creating the links in
the destroot, so that should be done in the destroot phase. You need to
create them pointing to where the original file will be after activation
(or use a relative path).

- Josh


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