Date: Sat, 03 Jun 1995 18:05:39 -0700 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com> To: asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Satoshi Asami) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, ports@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Change in the package hierarchy organization requested Message-ID: <593.802227939@westhill.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jun 1995 17:49:54 PDT." <199506040049.RAA00769@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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In message <199506040049.RAA00769@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>, Satoshi Asami write s: >That's an interesting problem...that RockRidge thing (I assume it's a >CDROM burner?) does the same to all the directory names that start >with ``.''? If so, I think you need to get that fixed, regardless of >the package situation.... :< Nope - it's the mkisofs program which generates an ISO 9660 Level 1 format disk from a UFS filesystem. The problem is ... level 1 is basically DOS format (with RR extensions), and DOS can't hack dir's which start with `.' AFAIK. So the software isn't broken in that respect, although how it handles the situation most definately IS :-( >The idea was to put the packages in a hidden directory, or at least >something that looks significantly different from the others so that >users can easily distinguish the directories that are safe to "get ><dir>.tar.gz" with those that aren't. Err. If you get <dir>.tar.gz you'll most probably get a symlink tree anyhow (haven't tried it, but I'd be surprised if tar followed the symlinks). I think the solution is to use `all' properly - i.e. put the real packages into all and symlink into there. >P.S. Don't tell me RockRidge collapses all names to lowercase. ;) OK I won't, but think about DOS naming conventions... :-) Gary
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