Re: MAJOR PROBLEM WITH SPARC CDS
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Johnie Ingram wrote:
>"Steve" == Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>
>Steve> This is a mess. And it means the sparc CDs we gave away at the
>Steve> Linux99 event last weekend are potentially badly broken. Is
>Steve> there any reason for the stable release tp have sym-links into
>Steve> unstable at all???
>
>Hm, doesnt the CD generation process automatically hardlinkify
>symlinks outside the working tree? If not, it'd be a useful feature
>that would work around this.
It already does, but I made the assumption that we'd only ever be linking
_backwards_, as that's the way releases have worked previously. Linking
forward into the _unstable_ tree is IMNSHO ludicrous.
--
Steve McIntyre, Allstor Software smcintyr@allstor-sw.co.uk
Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there
must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the
far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled
knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer
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