Bug#582294: approx: Doesn't handle recursive symlinks

2010-07-21 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Eric. Sorry for not getting in touch earlier. Life's been very hectic with the preparations to this year's DebConf. (BTW, will you be there?). On 07/20/2010 11:40 PM, Eric Cooper wrote: On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:42:09AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: Of course, detecting if a symlink creates

Bug#582294: approx: Doesn't handle recursive symlinks

2010-07-04 Thread Rogério Brito
reopen 582294 retitle 582294 approx doesn't handle symlinks properly thanks Hi there, Eric. Please, pardon my defficiencies of reading non-mainstream computer languages, but, if I understood the code correctly, you completely removed the possibility of using symlinks for the approx cache. This

Bug#582294: approx: Doesn't handle recursive symlinks

2010-07-04 Thread Eric Cooper
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:42:09AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: Please, pardon my defficiencies of reading non-mainstream computer languages, but, if I understood the code correctly, you completely removed the possibility of using symlinks for the approx cache. Yes, I did this in response to

Bug#582294: approx: Doesn't handle recursive symlinks

2010-05-19 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Package: approx Version: 4.2-1 Severity: normal I|m mirroring a Repository, which contains a symlink /var/cache/approx/univention/univention-repository linking to .. /usr/sbin/approx-gc does follow this links and recurses until the path gets too long:

Bug#582294: approx: Doesn't handle recursive symlinks

2010-05-19 Thread Eric Cooper
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 09:17:03PM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: I|m mirroring a Repository, which contains a symlink /var/cache/approx/univention/univention-repository linking to .. How did this symlink get into the approx cache? I can't see how approx would create it. -- Eric Cooper