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Re: packages which are links to bo



Zed Pobre <zed@moebius.interdestination.com> writes:

>     I don't much like this solution.  It will cause mirror to also
> duplicate the files from binary-all that are symlinked to binary-i386.
> That's a LOT of space.  Personally, being as close to release as we are,
> and noting how little space is actually going to be taken by moving the
> files over, I'd be a lot happier if Guy went ahead and converted all of
> the symlinks already so those of us planning on testing a CD-burn can do
> so.  Still, this topic has apparantly been beaten to death, so I guess
> I'll just tolerate whatever happens.  It's not like Guy doesn't have
> enough to do ;)

How about just using "cp -r ..." to make the image you're going to
burn, which will flatten all the symlinks in the process.  Not having
burned any CD's myself, I don't know exactly what's involved...

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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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