Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 08:43:01 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@cdrom.com> Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GYRCQHUBKEI=?==?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=), 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: <m0s3Qrx-000r4fC@main.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Apr 1995 02:48:41 -0700." <1027.798716921@westhill.cdrom.com>
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> 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. The tar command that gets used to bundle up the directory is
configured in a 'ftpconversions' file:
:.Z: : :/bin/compress -d -c %s:T_REG|T_ASCII:O_UNCOMPRESS:UNCOMPRESS
: : :.Z:/bin/compress -c %s:T_REG:O_COMPRESS:COMPRESS
:.gz: :.Z:/bin/gzip2cmp %s:T_REG:O_COMPRESS|O_UNCOMPRESS:COMPRESS
:.gz: : :/bin/gzip -cd %s:T_REG|T_ASCII:O_UNCOMPRESS:GUNZIP
: : :.gz:/bin/gzip -9 -c %s:T_REG:O_COMPRESS:GZIP
: : :.tar:/bin/tar -c -f - %s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_TAR:TAR
: : :.tar.Z:/bin/tar -c -Z -f - %s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_COMPRESS|O_TAR:TAR+COMPRESS
: : :.tar.gz:/bin/tar -c -z -f - %s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_COMPRESS|O_TAR:TAR+GZIP
: : :.tgz:/bin/tar -c -z -f - %s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_COMPRESS|O_TAR:TAR+GZIP
: : :.taz:/bin/tar -c -Z -f - %s:T_REG|T_DIR:O_COMPRESS|O_TAR:TAR+COMPRESS
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?
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