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Subject: Re: Problem with Postfix Sources in AFS
From: Lionel Cons (lionel.conscern.ch)
Date: Wed Jul 05 2000 - 04:27:10 CDT

wietseporcupine.org (Wietse Venema) writes:
> Lionel Cons:
> > When I untar the Postfix sources in AFS I get several error messages
> > because the tar file contains hardlinks and AFS cannot handle
> > hardlinks across directories:
> > [...]
> > Would it be possible to replace these hardlinks by symlinks in the tar
> > file?
>
> This is almost as weird as the request from someone who was running
> CVS on Windows.

Almost, but not as weird ;-)

> In order to build Postfix you do not need the .indent or .printfck
> files. They are used for development only.
>
> How about you produce a patch to the Makefile.in files that copies
> ../.whatever so that dotfiles are kept up to date without bother.

Here is the exact situation. The latest tar file contains 59
hardlinks. One is for the licence file (conf/LICENSE => LICENSE) and
then two hardlinks exist in each of the 29 "source directories"
(<dir>/.printfck => .printfck and <dir>/.indent.pro => .indent.pro).

I could modify the Makefiles so that the .printfck are not needed
anymore but this would not help for the remaining 30 hardlinks. I have
no idea how the .indent.pro files are used.

Anyway, here is my contribution:

 - to change the Makefiles
   # perl -pi -e 's{ \.printfck }{ ../.printfck }' */Makefile.in
   # rm -f */.printfck

 - to replace hardlinks by symlinks
   # perl -e 'foreach (ARGV) { unlink($_) and symlink("..".substr($_,index($_,"/")),$_) }' conf/LICENSE */.indent.pro */.printfck

Cheers,
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