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Re: Tetex-2.0.2-15: source tarball invalid
- From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke at gnu dot org>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:56:26 +0100
- Subject: Re: Tetex-2.0.2-15: source tarball invalid
- Organization: Jan at Appel
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Igor Pechtchanski writes:
> BTW, the tetex-bin source tarball is invalid. For example, the directory
> tetex-bin-2.0.2-15/texk/oxdvik/texmf is a symlink to ../xdvik/texmf;
Yes, that's how upstream packages it.
> however, the tarball contains files in the symlinked directory (which seem
> to be replicas of the files in the target directory, FWIW).
Hmm, indeed. I'm just using mknetrel, and thus the magic src tar
curse. Maybe I should override this for tetex and use a more plain
tar command.
Jan.
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