Package: xutils
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
This patch adds an option '-ignoredirs' (like '-ignorelinks') that creates
a symlink even if the target is a directory. This may not be useful for X, but
since the lndir program is usually in the search path, I think you should also
allow a patch which makes the program more useful in general. (I often need to
create a shadow of the dotfiles and dotdirs in my home directory to make a
backup of my settings, and this tool seems to be the best way to achieve this.)
If you intend to apply the patch, I will fix the indentation and update the
documentation.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages xutils depends on:
ii cpp 4:3.3.4-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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retitle 287515 xutils: [lndir] want new -ignoredirs option that creates symlinks to directories instead of building tree
tag 287515 + upstream
thanks
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:38:15PM +0100, Sebastian Reichelt wrote:
> Package: xutils
> Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> This patch adds an option '-ignoredirs' (like '-ignorelinks') that creates
> a symlink even if the target is a directory. This may not be useful for X, but
> since the lndir program is usually in the search path, I think you should also
> allow a patch which makes the program more useful in general. (I often need to
> create a shadow of the dotfiles and dotdirs in my home directory to make a
> backup of my settings, and this tool seems to be the best way to achieve this.)
>
> If you intend to apply the patch, I will fix the indentation and update the
> documentation.
Triage-wise, I don't think it's a good idea to grapple with this particular
request until after we get X.Org X11 6.8.2 into unstable.
Please do feel free to nag the debian-x mailing list about this once that's
happened though. You can achieve this by simply following up to the bug
address.
Thanks for your report!
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Hi,
The following wishlists against xutils-dev might be interesting.
But I don't think they will ever be implemented by a Debian patch.
I suggest that you request them upstream at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/index.cgi
#307791: <mailto:[email protected]>xutils: add an --ignore option
to lndir
#290332: <mailto:[email protected]>xutils: lndir -withrevinfo
should know about Arch
#287515: <mailto:[email protected]>xutils: [lndir] want new
-ignoredirs option that creates symlinks to directories instead of
building tree
Brice
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