[2940] in testers
another mkserv problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Jun 19 03:39:56 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: mkserv@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 03:39:48 EDT
So, I found another mkserv problem. Actually this is a problem that
existed in 7.7 and continues to exist in 8.0. The problem is that
certain directories may get brought local, but the symlinks on the
/usr partition are not re-pointed to the /var/server version of these
directories. I have a patch which seems to work under 8.0, but I have
yet to test under 7.7.* I don't think the patch needs as formal a
review as the recent changes I made to mkserv, since it is only a 6
line patch. However, if someone with extensive knowledge of synctree
rulefiles wanted to look at it that would probably be a good thing.
* There is only one aspect of this patch that I am particularly
worried about havin gwork under 7.7. Under 7.7 /usr/include was a
symlink to the srvd. Under 8.0 /usr/include is a directory containing
exclusively symlinks to the os packs. Is there a good reason that it
exists as a directory under 8.0 and isn't just a single symlink to the
os packs. (This would eliminate the need for the part of the patch
that I am concerned will not work under 7.7)
Jonathon
