On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 02:05:15PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:33:50 +0200, > Thierry Reding wrote: > > > > I've noticed that the current Link: mechanism completely ignores the > > target part of the link. Was this intended to allow creating symlinks > > dynamically when copying the firmware, rather than just copying any > > existing symlinks themselves? > > That's a kind of intentional; the script doesn't validate by itself > but just installs to the target directory. And the cp -d option > preserves the symlink as-is, so it should work as long as the original > symlink is correctly set up. Perhaps some code could be added to create the symlinks if the "-> foo" part was specified and no symlink exists. Not a big deal, I just think it's a bit redundant to basically have all the symlink information in the WHENCE file and in the filesystem. That's especially annoying if both get out of sync. I'll volunteer to write that patch if you think it'd be a worthwhile addition. Thierry
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