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 Message-ID: <11723@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Date: 1 Oct 89 21:01:57 GMT References: <29654@watmath.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) Distribution: uw Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 8 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. -- -IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu 129.97.128.64 Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada