Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 08:10:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: scott@statsci.com Cc: gpalmer@cdrom.com, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, nwestfal@indigo.csci.csusb.edu, ports@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: /usr/ports/distfiles - did I screw the pooch here? Message-ID: <199504250610.IAA24781@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <m0s3Qrx-000r4fC@main.statsci.com> from "Scott Blachowicz" at Apr 24, 95 08:43:01 am
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Scott Blachowicz wrote: > > > It's probably Solaris or somesuch - Solaris seems to handle symlinks > > completely differently from BSD. > > I would think it would be personal preference of whoever configured > wu-ftpd. [...] > > Maybe the site that followed the symlinks had a -h option on the tar > command line? Or maybe I caught this thread in the middle and just > submitted a nice non-sequiter? Well, in any case, if a mirror site of wcarchive is configured that way, the symlinks will not help to keep the distfiles out of the ports directory. The mirror will have the links, too... tg
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