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Date:      Mon, 24 Apr 1995 10:50:56 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=)
Cc:        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:  <199504240850.KAA22748@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199504220614.XAA03827@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=" at Apr 21, 95 11:14:55 pm

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Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= wrote:
> 
> 
> Why don't we change it to a symbolic link?  Then "get ports.tar.gz"
> will only pick it up as a symlink....

Last time I fetched a directory containing a symlink with get
<dir>.tar.gz, the ftp at the other site followed the link...

tg



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