On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Brian Elliott Finley wrote:

> Thus spake Gary Molenkamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > 
> > I have an image that has symbolic links to automounted disks:
> >     /var/lib/systemimager/images/compute_node/home1 -> /home/home1
> > These automounted disks are also automounted on the image server, so that 
> > the links will actually contain files when access.   
> > 
> > When copying this image:
> >     cpimage compute_node testing_node
> > it will try to manually copy all of the contents from /home/home rather 
> > than the autofs mount point only.  I can override this be editing the 
> > cpimage script to exclude these subdirs on the rsync command.
> > 
> > 
> > Not sure if this is an item of concern for discussion, or just a fringe 
> > case from my historicly obfuscated setup :)
> 
> Well, Gary, I think I'm going to dub this a fringe case. ;-)
> 
> We make the assumption that we own everything from where the 
> systemimager directory lives (/var/lib/systemimager/) on down.
> 
> However, there may be a simple solution to your problem.  Can you create
> your soft links as relative instead of fully qualified?

For this case no, (I'm working on removing them altogether)
but what if there are additional absolute path sym links within the image 
that point outside of the image tree? 

PS. As per Dann's suggestion, this was submitted as a bug.




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