[Users] Formaline

[Erik Schnetter]

On Apr 17, 2008, at 12:49:22, Ian Hinder wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using the Formaline thorn to store a copy of my Cactus source  
> tree
> in my output directories.
>
> In my source tree, I have some thorns which are actually symlinked  
> from
> outside the tree.
>
> Formaline faithfully stores the symlinks, but not the targets of the
> symlink.  Would it be better to dereference symlinks automatically, or
> to have a parameter to do this?


Yes, that should happen automatically.  find or tar probably have  
options for this.  Are you using GNU tar?

-erik

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