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Subject: Re: /usr/ports/distfiles - did I screw the pooch here?
To: scott@statsci.com
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 08:10:54 +0200 (MET DST)
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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