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[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Dec 17, 2009, at 4:54 AM, Marc Lörner wrote:

>> Recently, mergemaster on ia64 offers this after installworld:
>> 
>> 
>> *** The installed file /boot has the type "symbolic link"
>>   but the new version has the type "directory"
>> 
>>   How would you like to handle this?
>> 
>>   Use 'r' to remove /boot
>>   You will be able to install it as a "directory"
>> 
>>   Use 'i' to ignore this
>> 
>>   How to proceed? [i]
>> 
>> 
>> I think it didn't ask this question before.
>> Is this just a generic, non ia64 specific, question?
>> /boot on ia64 must be a symbolic link, right?
> 
> This link was and is needed for ia64 for compliance with build/installkernel because ia64-kernel resides on the efi-partition.
> 
> I think this was forgotten to implement for ia64's mergemaster.

Correct. It's also not possible to add /boot to IGNORE_FILES for
some reason. I tried that and it still complained. I guess it
only works for files and not directories.

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Marcel Moolenaar
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