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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 18:30:09 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionali ty
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In-Reply-To: <20010222215326.A908@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:53:26PM +0100

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

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