Re: Packages with symlinks and CVS

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> >> "JG" == Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> JG> contains lots of symlinks.  I usually use the CVS suite to do my
> JG> packaging, but by default, CVS does not handle symlinks.
> 
> But it can be configured to creat them on export and checkout
> 
> Here is what I do for wxftp.
> 
> I have a executable script CVSROOT/wxftp
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> set -e
> echo >&2 `pwd`
> (cd $1/help; test -f index.html || ln -s wxftp.html index.html; )
> [...]

That's OK, except that this package currently has 258 symlinks, and
both the number and details are likely to change on a fairly regular
basis.  The thought of keeping that up to date is quite terrifying.
There must surely be a better way?

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
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