Bug#287515: xutils: [lndir] [patch] create symlinks to directories instead of building tree

[Sebastian Reichelt]

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

-- no debconf information

--- lndir.c.old	2004-12-28 13:32:46.000000000 +0100
+++ lndir.c	2004-12-28 13:44:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
 
 int silent = 0;			/* -silent */
 int ignore_links = 0;		/* -ignorelinks */
+int ignore_dirs = 0;		/* -ignoredirs */
 int with_revinfo = 0;		/* -withrevinfo */
 
 char *rcurdir;
@@ -211,6 +212,7 @@
 		    (dp->d_name[1] == '\0' || (dp->d_name[1] == '.' &&
 					       dp->d_name[2] == '\0')))
 		    continue;
+		if (!ignore_dirs) {
 		if (!with_revinfo) {
 		    if (!strcmp (dp->d_name, "RCS"))
 			continue;
@@ -249,6 +251,7 @@
 		    quiterr (1, "..");
 		curdir = rcurdir = ocurdir;
 		continue;
+		}
 	    }
 	}
 
@@ -341,6 +344,8 @@
 	    silent = 1;
 	else if (strcmp(*av, "-ignorelinks") == 0)
 	    ignore_links = 1;
+	else if (strcmp(*av, "-ignoredirs") == 0)
+	    ignore_dirs = 1;
 	else if (strcmp(*av, "-withrevinfo") == 0)
 	    with_revinfo = 1;
 	else if (strcmp(*av, "--") == 0) {
@@ -352,7 +357,7 @@
     }
 
     if (ac < 1 || ac > 2)
-	quit (1, "usage: %s [-silent] [-ignorelinks] fromdir [todir]",
+	quit (1, "usage: %s [-silent] [-ignorelinks] [-ignoredirs] fromdir [todir]",
 	      prog_name);
 
     fn = av[0];