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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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