144928 – symlinks should be followed when installing sources

Bug 144928 - symlinks should be followed when installing sources

Summary: symlinks should be followed when installing sources

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Ebuild Support (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Keywords:	InVCS

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Blocks:	136244
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Reported:	2006-08-23 20:12 UTC by Olivier Crete (RETIRED)
Modified:	2006-08-25 21:52 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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patch (rsync-L.diff,657 bytes, patch) 2006-08-23 20:20 UTC, Olivier Crete (RETIRED)	Details \| Diff
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Description Olivier Crete (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-23 20:12:09 UTC

when installing sys-process/lsof-4.77 it only copies symlink to the sources instead of the sources themselves... we should either add -L or --copy-unsafe-links to the rsync command in bin/prepstrip

Comment 1 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-23 20:20:59 UTC

Created attachment 94985 [details, diff]
patch

it seems that -L is necessary.. a patch against the trunk is attached.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2006-08-23 20:53:19 UTC

Thanks, this is in svn r4321.

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2006-08-25 21:52:36 UTC

This has been released in 2.1.1_rc1.