rsync'ing symlinks

[Blair Zajac]

On 08/28/2013 06:44 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Aug 28, 2013, at 00:25, Blair Zajac wrote:
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>> I need the same patch for two ports (zeroc-ice35 and py-zeroc-ice35) and right now the patch file in py-zeroc-ice35 is a symlink to the one in zeroc-ice35.
>>
>> # port -v sync
>> --->  Updating the ports tree
>> Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/
>> receiving file list ... done
>> ./
>> skipping non-regular file "python/py-zeroc-ice35/files/patch-ice.cpp.config.Make.rules.Darwin.diff"
>>
>> Can we add syncing of symlinks to the rsync command?
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> That would involve changing the default rsync_options in macports.conf to include "-l", then releasing a new version of MacPorts, then hoping that no user had modified that setting.
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> I'm not sure if there are any security or other negative implications of using the "-l" option.
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> Generally we just copy the patch into each port where it's needed.

I ended up doing that.

We should add a svn pre-commit hook that prevents symlinks from being 
checked into the ports directory to avoid people not realizing it won't 
work.

Blair