Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!idallen
From: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL])
Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.bugs
Subject: Re: xhier - distfiles can't handle remote packages being symlinks
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Date: 1 Oct 89 21:01:57 GMT
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Reply-To: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL])
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I always use /directory/name/. if I'm only concerned about the
substructure, not the directory itself.  This will fool rdist into
ignoring the fact that /software/tex is a symlink, because
/software/tex/. never is.
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-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
 129.97.128.64    Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada