prosolutions,
I agree that absolute symlinks are a bad thing, but we don't currently
convert them. You're the first person I can recall to suggest that we
do that, and it is an interesting idea.
I would not be opposed to a patch, against si_prepareclient (or rather
it's libraries), that did such a thing, provided that:
* An option was added to disable this feature for users who did not
want that behaviour (Say, --keep-absolute-symlinks).
* For interactive mode, users were warned that it was about to
happen, and were given the opportunity to decline.
If you submit such a patch, I'll include it (subject to standard quality
disclaimers, etc.).
Cheers, -Brian
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hello, I was just wondering whether absolute symlinks get converted to
relative when preparing golden_clients? This is a good idea for
safety purposes when creating rsync mirrors on some other filesystem.
For example, if on the golden_client you had a symlink from /usr/local/etc/app.cfg
-> /etc/app.cfg and on the system hosting the mirror there was also an
/etc/app.cfg, you could easily get into problems if you were to edit
/usr/local/etc/app.cfg on the mirror and mistakenly be editing
/etc/app.cfg on the system which hosts the mirror.
Converting all symlinks to relative beforehand eliminates this risk since
/usr/local/etc/app.cfg would then point to ../../../etc/app.cfg If,
after creating the mirror you decide you need to edit
/usr/local/etc/app.cfg you can do so safely.
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