[pacman-dev] repo-add error in BSD

[Antonio Huete Jimenez]

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>>> Can anyone explain why we need readlink at all?
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>>> Otherwise, it is used in repo-remove too but repo-add and repo-remove
>>> should be combined.
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>> Ooops! I forgot this. Should I still submit the full patch?
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> Not before the above question is answered : what do we need readlink for?
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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