[mythtv] Ticket #7010: ./cpsvndir causes errors with checkinstall for themes

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Sep 11 18:47:41 UTC 2009


On 09/11/2009 02:25 PM, Peter Stokes wrote:
> However, now that symbolic links are supported, errors whilst 
> installing several themes (e.g. blootube-wide) where symbolic links 
> are being copied before the files that they refer to are being 
> displayed on the console. I think that the fix for this is to add the 
> "-h" option to the "chown" statement to prevent it from dereferencing 
> the symbolic link. This would also potentially change the ownership of 
> the symbolic link, which is presumably desirable.

Yep.  I'm about to commit exactly that change.

Thanks,
Mike


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