Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A9584E3.2047D8D5@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 16:30:11 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" CC: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic linkfunctionali ty References: <3A957332.FD98DFF6@ece.gatech.edu> <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E210@IIS000> <20010222184404.S908@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3A955952.6FF234D4@ece.gatech.edu> <20010222140454.F13561@redhat.com> <3A957332.FD98DFF6@ece.gatech.edu> <4.3.1.2.20010222155316.02f226c8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > At 03:53 PM 2/22/2001, 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. > > Wait, but you're just talking about the POSIX path. I think Chuck was > referring to the Windows paths, right Chuck? > You misunderstand Corinna. She is saying that the *.lnk files wouldn't be in the tarball only the attribute of the links and the *.lnk file would be recreated when extracting it from the tarball. The *.lnk file itself would not be extracted but recreated. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple