Root partition and usrland on one slice, /usr/local ports and srcon another

[Jamie Landeg-Jones]

Eugene Grosbein wrote:

> I still don't get what specific problems did you have
> but I'm sure they were not due to symlinking as such links work just fine
> for me with gcc, and with clang too.

Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at komquats.com> replied:

> Neither do I. I've been using a combination of symlinks, ufs, nullfs, zfs legacy and straight zfs in various configurations over the years on various systems with no problems whatsoever.

I just came across one with multimedia/ffmpeg4:

Debugging the install stage gives this, though the cpio error messages are sent to null by default:

| + /usr/bin/find -Ed Changelog CREDITS INSTALL.md LICENSE.md MAINTAINERS README.md RELEASE_NOTES
| + /usr/bin/cpio -dumpl /scratch/root/ports_base/usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/ffmpeg
| cpio: Cannot extract through symlink /scratch/root/ports_base/usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/Changelog
| cpio: Cannot extract through symlink /scratch/root/ports_base/usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/CREDITS
| cpio: Cannot extract through symlink /scratch/root/ports_base/usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/INSTALL.md
| cpio: Cannot extract through symlink /scratch/root/ports_base/usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/LICENSE.md
| cpio: Cannot extract through symlink /scratch/root/ports_base/usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/MAINTAINERS
| cpio: Cannot extract through symlink /scratch/root/ports_base/usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/README.md
| cpio: Cannot extract through symlink /scratch/root/ports_base/usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/ffmpeg/RELEASE_NOTES
| 0 blocks
| + /usr/bin/find -Ed Changelog CREDITS INSTALL.md LICENSE.md MAINTAINERS README.md RELEASE_NOTES '(' -type d -exec /bin/sh -xc 'cd /scratch/root/ports_base/usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/ffmpeg && chmod 755 "$@"' . {} + -o -type f -exec /bin/sh -xc 'cd /scratch/root/ports_base/usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/ffmpeg && chmod 0644 "$@"' . {} + ')'
| + cd /scratch/root/ports_base/usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/work/stage/usr/local/share/doc/ffmpeg
| + chmod 0644 Changelog CREDITS INSTALL.md LICENSE.md MAINTAINERS README.md RELEASE_NOTES
| chmod: Changelog: No such file or directory
| chmod: CREDITS: No such file or directory
| chmod: INSTALL.md: No such file or directory
| chmod: LICENSE.md: No such file or directory
| chmod: MAINTAINERS: No such file or directory
| chmod: README.md: No such file or directory
| chmod: RELEASE_NOTES: No such file or directory

cheers, Jamie