Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Do not dereference symlinks when calculating size

25 Feb 2012


      On 25/02/12 01:59, Dan McGee wrote:
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Allan McRae  wrote:
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Passing the "-L" flag to stat means we get the size of the file
being pointed to for symlinks instead of the size of the symlink.
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae 
NACK. You're reverting this commit. This is what we get for trying to
repurpose SIZECMD for use in makepkg, it looks like you need a second
command.
commit 20aa17c276c35e08c7a8e2aa20410b99a20f8129
Author: Dan McGee 
Date:   Wed Sep 23 19:11:34 2009 -0500
repo-add: make sure we get size of target file
If the package we were adding was a symlink, we stuck the symlink size in
    the database rather than the size of the file it referred to. Whoops!
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee 
OK, did not seed this....  Will send a fixed on later.

Allan