From owner-cvs-etc Mon Jan 30 19:40:46 1995 Return-Path: cvs-etc-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA22347 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 19:40:46 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA22336; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 19:40:33 -0800 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id TAA07840; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 19:40:11 -0800 From: Rodney W Grimes Message-Id: <199501310340.TAA07840@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist To: ache@astral.msk.su (Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 19:40:09 -0800 (PST) Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" at Jan 31, 95 05:54:10 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1578 Sender: cvs-etc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > In message <199501302135.NAA06108@ref.tfs.com> Rodney W Grimes writes: > > >> > >> ache 95/01/30 07:20:56 > >> > >> Modified: etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist > >> Log: > >> Create necessary symlinks for locale dirs > > >Mtree will *not* create symlinks. This should be done in the Makefile. > > Why? Why, well, because mtree does not have the code in it to create symbolic links. It will only create directories as far as I have ever seen. This may have changed with the 4.4 sources, but I sure don't remeber seeing the code in mtree to do it. Infact mtree has problems right now when things in the *.dist files are not directories but instead symlinks pointing to directories. Did you nuke the symlinks and run mtree to see that it did what you though it would do? > The situation is coming when several Makefiles > needs the same symlinks, it was the reason why I move them > into one place: mtree. > It is directory simlinks, not file simlynks. Perhaps then these symlinks should be put in the hierarchy: target of /usr/src/release/Makefile. > Directory itself created by mtree earlier. > -- > Andrew A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, > ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - > FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. > RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849 > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD