jmsellens@watmath.waterloo.edu (10/01/89)
From: John M Sellens <jmsellens>
dragon is very short of /usr space, so I have had tex over on /u for a
while with /software/tex pointing over to the appropriate place.
xhier distfiles can't deal with this because they try to distribute
the shareable stuff with /software/tex which fails because it's
a directory here and a link there. I think this could be fixed by
using /software/tex/* and /software/tex/.??* instead. Here's an
output extract to demonstrate. It didn't do anything shareable, the
installation was never done, and the other xhier files weren't either.
xh-distribute FYI: rdist output for the "tex" package being mailed
xh-distribute FYI: to: jmsmail@watdragon
xh-distribute FYI: rdist output follows:
updating host watdragon
installing:
/software/tex/man/man7/miscellaneous.7
rdist: watdragon: '/software/tex': Not a directory
removed:
/software/tex/doc/latex.doc/{latex.tex,lfonts.tex,lplain.tex}
updating:
/.software/arch/tex/servers/{texfontd,texfontremover,tver,tver2}
special: Make: Cannot open '/software/tex/Makefile' No such file or directory
special:
special: Stop. D. Allen [CGL]) (10/02/89)
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