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bug#21209: /gnu/store should be able to be a symlink, but it can't
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Kragen Javier Sitaker |
Subject: |
bug#21209: /gnu/store should be able to be a symlink, but it can't |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Aug 2015 15:48:18 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> it is by design that you can't symlink.
If that is true (and it seems like a rather strange design; why would somebody
want that?) I think that the error message should explain that rather than
simply complaining that /gnu/store is "not a directory".
> On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 06:51:17AM +0200, Claes Wallin wrote:
> > On 07-Aug-2015 11:22 pm, "Kragen Javier Sitaker" <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > > I’m working around that by directly mounting the /gnustore partition
> > > under /gnu/store now.
> >
> > You don't need to make a new file system and a loop mount. You could just
> > make a bind mount.
Indeed, but I had already made the new filesystem, for other reasons.