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Date:      Mon, 30 Jan 1995 19:40:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      Rodney W Grimes <rgrimes@ref.tfs.com>
To:        ache@astral.msk.su (Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage)
Cc:        CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist
Message-ID:  <199501310340.TAA07840@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <OEIPQBlOM1@astral.msk.su> from "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" at Jan 31, 95 05:54:10 am

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> 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.
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> 


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