On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Ty Sarna wrote:
> Modified Files:
> 	pkgsrc/lang/py-html-docs: Makefile
> 
> Log Message:
> Use ${FIND} and ${PAX}

BTW, were we every bitten by Solaris pax's braindeath WRT symlinks?

delphi% cd /tmp
delphi% touch somefile
delphi% mkdir source dest
delphi% ln -s ../somefile source/link
delphi% cd source/
delphi% ls -la
total 48
drwxr-xr-x   2 feyrer   bedienst     106 Jan  2 23:42 .
drwxrwxrwt  11 sys      sys          808 Jan  2 23:42 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 feyrer   bedienst      11 Jan  2 23:42 link -> ../somefile
delphi% ls -lL link 
-rw-r--r--   1 feyrer   bedienst       0 Jan  2 23:42 link
delphi% pax -rw -pe -v . ../dest
../dest/.
../dest/./link
delphi% cd ../dest/
delphi% ls -la
total 48
drwxr-xr-x   2 feyrer   bedienst     106 Jan  2 23:43 .
drwxrwxrwt  11 sys      sys          808 Jan  2 23:42 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 feyrer   bedienst      11 Jan  2 23:43 link -> ../somefile
delphi% ls -lL link 
-rwxrwxrwx   1 feyrer   bedienst       0 Jan  2 23:42 link
 ^^^^^^^^^
delphi% uname -a
SunOS delphi 5.6 Generic_105181-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

I've also just tried this on Solaris 7/x86, same result.

So, better beware...


 - Hubert

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