Re: [PATCH] package_rpm.bbclass: support packaging of symlinks to directories

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 2/17/15 10:57 AM, Christopher Larson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com
> <mailto:mark.hatle@windriver.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2/17/15 7:42 AM, Patrick Ohly wrote:
>     > os.walk() returns symlinks to directories in the "dirs" lists,
>     > but then never enters them by default. As a result, the old
>     > code applied neither the directory handling (because that
>     > is active once a directory gets entered) nor the file handling,
>     > and thus never packaged such symlinks.
>     >
>     > The fix is simple: find such special directory entries and move
>     > them to the "files" list.
> 
>     I'm curious, what is the problem that is being fixed with this.
> 
>     Normally you don't want to walk into symlinks to directories, as either you want
>     to capture the symlink itself -- or the symlink is pointing to something you
>     don't have access to when packaging (i.e. /proc).
> 
> 
> This patch doesn't make it walk into the directory symlinks, it moves them into
> the files list rather than the dirs list so they'll be captured themselves, as
> far as I can tell from reading it.

Ok.. I missed that bit.. I'm still curious what this fixes.

--Mark