[Fink-devel] postinstall.pl symlink

[Ben Hines]

I noticed fink/dists is a symlink to the full path of 10.2:

ln -s /sw/fink/10.2 /sw/fink/dists

Wouldn't it be better to do:

ln -s 10.2 /sw/fink/dists

Then i wouldn't get confused when copying my fink installs around, when I cd into /swbackup/fink/dists and it goes to the other install's dists . :) Also it would probably increase performance a tiny bit somewhere (fewer paths to traverse in the link).

However, if /sw/fink/dists is there already and you run that command, it creates:

lrwxr-xr-x 1 ben staff 4 Dec 12 22:50 10.2 -> 10.2

in /sw/fink/dists.. so you should remove the current symlink before creating the new one in postinstall.pl. (looks like it already does that, anyway)

-Ben



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