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From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
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Subject: Re: mtree -L is broken due to unneded type=link additions to
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:09:02PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> 
> So what *is* the supported way to create and populate ${PREFIX}?

As you can see in bsd.port.mk, it is

make install-mtree

> 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"

I do that already. Kris ask me in private message about problems symlinks 
can cause in BSD.*.dist. I explain that either -P or -L will be broken. He 
resend my answer to interested parties. Apparently, you was not among 
them.

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Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/