Not sure why this was reassigned from dget to dscverify, but, the problem is
caused by the following part in /usr/bin/dget:
if ($url =~ m!^(file|copy)://(/.+)!) {
if ($1 eq "copy" or not link($2, $file)) {
system "cp -a $2 $file";
return $? >> 8;
}
return;
}
Hardlinking a symlink of course doesn't update its destination.
There are four bugs there:
1. (/.+) should be (.+) -- there's no reason relative urls shouldn't work
2. fallback cp should use -L
3. $2 in the link() calls should be `readlink -f "$2"` (modulo possible
quotes inside the string and the general uselessness of `` on an
user-provided string)
4. the system() call will break on spaces or quotes in the passed URL.
should be system "/bin/cp", "-a", $2, $file
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