> And also slightly related: we need a way to mark directories as > optional in the mtree files (or have a way to provide several > alternative options). Typical issue: /var/shm is a symlink on most > of my smaller machines, but it is impossible to make such setups pass > the mtree tests.
Maybe a way to mark an entry as, effectively, "use stat() instead of lstat() when checking this entry"? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B