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Fresh SVN-install yields "link stdnormal_footer" on all subpages

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list Carl Melgaard · Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:43:30 +0100 ·
Hi,

I just did a fresh SVN install of 4.3b3 (4.3.0-0.20101114.beta3) and on all my subpages I get the "link stdnormal_footer" written in plain-text. Seems like all the footer-files in the webfiles/web-directory contains that string - shouldn't they simply symlink to the stdnormal_footer file?

Regards,

Carl Melgaard
list Henrik Størner · Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:12:12 +0000 (UTC) ·
quoted from Carl Melgaard
In <user-f3c06ac4b9b9@xymon.invalid> Carl Melgaard <user-cdea55422fa4@xymon.invalid> writes:
I just did a fresh SVN install of 4.3b3 (4.3.0-0.20101114.beta3) and on all=
my subpages I get the "link stdnormal_footer" written in plain-text. Seems=

like all the footer-files in the webfiles/web-directory contains that stri=
ng - shouldn't they simply symlink to the stdnormal_footer file?
How did you download the sourcecode - just the file available from
the "Files" section of Sourceforge, or as a checkout from SVN ?
If the latter, did you use a Unix-version of the SVN utilities ?

Downloading using a Windows-based SVN client is unlikely to work,
since Windows doesn't support symbolic links.


Regards,
Henrik
list Carl Melgaard · Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:17:07 +0100 ·
quoted from Henrik Størner
ng - shouldn't they simply symlink to the stdnormal_footer file?
How did you download the sourcecode - just the file available from
the "Files" section of Sourceforge, or as a checkout from SVN ?
If the latter, did you use a Unix-version of the SVN utilities ?

Downloading using a Windows-based SVN client is unlikely to work,
since Windows doesn't support symbolic links.
Actually, I just did a web-download "GNU-tarball" from the branches/4.3.0/ directory. Guess that doesn't work either. I'll just fix the symlinks manually - is there anything else that might be broken this way?

Regards,

Carl Melgaard
list Malcolm Hunter · Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:28:29 +0100 ·
quoted from Carl Melgaard
ng - shouldn't they simply symlink to the stdnormal_footer file?
How did you download the sourcecode - just the file available from
the "Files" section of Sourceforge, or as a checkout from SVN ?
If the latter, did you use a Unix-version of the SVN utilities ?

Downloading using a Windows-based SVN client is unlikely to work,
since Windows doesn't support symbolic links.
Actually, I just did a web-download "GNU-tarball" from the branches/4.3.0/
directory. Guess that doesn't work either. I'll just fix the symlinks
manually - is there anything else that might be broken this way?
That's right - the tarball from the web svn breaks the symlinks - fortunately these are the only files affected.

Henrik, couldn't we dispense with putting symlinks into SVN and generate them during the build instead?

Malcolm


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list Henrik Størner · Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:58:45 +0000 (UTC) ·
quoted from Malcolm Hunter
In <user-f9b37e3a1efa@xymon.invalid> "Malcolm Hunter" <user-b3e590ffeb6d@xymon.invalid> writes:

ng - shouldn't they simply symlink to the stdnormal_footer file?
How did you download the sourcecode - just the file available from
the "Files" section of Sourceforge, or as a checkout from SVN ?
If the latter, did you use a Unix-version of the SVN utilities ?

Downloading using a Windows-based SVN client is unlikely to work,
since Windows doesn't support symbolic links.
Actually, I just did a web-download "GNU-tarball" from the branches/4.3.0/
directory. Guess that doesn't work either. I'll just fix the symlinks
manually - is there anything else that might be broken this way?
That's right - the tarball from the web svn breaks the symlinks
Really ?!!? <checking> WTF .... You're right.  Sourceforge bug, in my book.
quoted from Malcolm Hunter

Henrik, couldn't we dispense with putting symlinks into SVN and generate 
them during the build instead?
It's just much simpler to have them in the source-tree. And "svn co" works
fine, as does the "svn export"-generated files.

I'll think about it.


Regards,
Henrik