On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Antonio Huete Jimenez <ahuete.devel@gmail.com> wrote:
In repo-add/repo-remove, readlink is used to calculate the full path of a file (canonicalize with option -f). But in BSD there's no such option in readlink, so you have to use realpath instead
Sorry, I didn't realize my question was that obscure, let me rephrase it : Why the hell do we need to calculate the full path of these files?
If I ask that question, it is because I am personally not able to answer it myself after looking at this repo-add script. If someone can explain why this is necessary, then we will have to use your readlink/realpath patch. If no one can, then it is probably useless so we can remove readlink usage altogether and solve this portability problem in a much simpler way.
Without looking at the script, I imagine it has to do with calculating the path used in %FILENAME% in the db entries. it *does* support full paths: %FILENAME% foo/bar/somepkg-1.0.pkg.tar.gz