On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:55:00 +1000, Tim Starling
<ts4294967296(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
In the real root directory there's symlinks to
images in the other
directories, apparently left there to avoid breaking URLs used in an
earlier version of the software. Obviously tar has converted them from
symlinks to duplicates. You can delete them.
Perhaps tar could be told to --exclude these, so they don't take up
everyone's space and bandwidth - from my glance at 'info tar',
something like this might do it:
tar --no-wildcards-match-slash --exclude "*.*"
(I know it looks like "exclude everything", but I'm assuming none of
the directories will have a . in the middle of their names, and that
first argument should be pretty self-explanatory...)
Of course, for all I know, there's stuff in that root that *is* useful
in the tar-ball, in which case the appropriate args may be a lot more
complex.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]