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On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:53:26PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> I just thought of another problem though -- if I put together a distro >> tarball that contains symlinks, the dos paths will match MY system, and >> not the user's system. Unless part of the postinstall script is to run >> fix-symlinks on the symlinks included in the installed package... > >No. Obviously not. Since Cygwin tar reads and saves the POSIX path >in the tarball, it is absolutely correctly recreated when unpacked >on the target system even when the links are absolute links, say >/usr/include/foo or alike. > >Consider - it's _not_ the *.lnk file which is saved in the tarball >but the attribute to be a symlink. You would be right in case of >using WinZip when creating an archive. But that's unfair because it's >only a native Windows tool... I wonder how WinZip handles .lnk files anyway? Does it just restore them "as is"? cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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