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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:54:04 -0500
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link
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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?


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