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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:09:02 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mtree -L is broken due to unneded type=link additions to BSD.*.dist
Message-ID:  <xzpn05y5sw1.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040330111059.GA48428@nagual.pp.ru> (Andrey Chernov's message of "Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:10:59 %2B0400")
References:  <20040328182314.GA99956@nagual.pp.ru> <xzpisgmwurw.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040330093548.GA46139@nagual.pp.ru> <xzpvfkmvdew.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040330103119.GA47518@nagual.pp.ru> <xzpr7vavc9a.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040330105948.GA48082@nagual.pp.ru> <20040330111059.GA48428@nagual.pp.ru>

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Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes:
> Alternatively, do you maybe mean that people directly calls mtree by
> hand before port installing? It is not supported way to get right
> directories in anycase and not worth to broke mtree -L, of course.

So what *is* the supported way to create and populate ${PREFIX}?

and why didn't you protest this change when it was discussed on the
lists?  the conclusion of that discussion was "BSD.*.dist doesn't list
symlinks because we thought mtree couldn't handle them"

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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