[pacman-dev] Purging symlinks

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed May 23 00:50:54 EDT 2012


On 23/05/12 14:35, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In current makepkg, file name patterns specified in PURGE_TARGETS will
> only match files (and not symlinks) due to:
> 
> find . -type f -name "${pt}" -exec rm -f -- '{}' \;
> 
> Is this intentional?
> 

Seems an oversight to me.  I guess this was to avoid matching directories.

Allan



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