Re: Python extraneous dependencies

2019-04-21 Thread Steven Penny
On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:58:12, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Nak. ctypes is part of the Python standard library and therefore the dependency needs to be on the main package(s). BTW, binutils is usually included by default in all but the most minimal base installs, so I'm not quite sure why you object

Re: Copying of symbolic links not working as expected

2019-04-21 Thread LRN
On 21.04.2019 14:45, Matt D. wrote: > > I had the same problem while trying to tar and untar: > > tar: aosp/source/system/vold/.git/shallow: Cannot create symlink to > ‘../../../.repo/projects/system/vold.git/shallow’: No such file or directory My current workaround for *this* particular proble

Re: Copying of symbolic links not working as expected

2019-04-21 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/21/2019 7:45 AM, Matt D. wrote: Note that this creates a chicken-and-the-egg problem when copying paths which contain symbolic links which will be but are not yet valid at the time of copying. For example, copying a very large and complex tree with many lots of links will result in a broke

Re: Copying of symbolic links not working as expected

2019-04-21 Thread Matt D.
Note that this creates a chicken-and-the-egg problem when copying paths which contain symbolic links which will be but are not yet valid at the time of copying. For example, copying a very large and complex tree with many lots of links will result in a broken copy. I'm trying to copy a directo

Copying of symbolic links not working as expected

2019-04-21 Thread Matt D.
I'm experiencing a discrepancy between Linux cp and Cygwin cp when copying native symbolic links: Test/ FolderA/ 123/ 456/ -> 123/ On Linux I can: > cp -r FolderA/ FolderB/ > ls -l FolderB/ total 0 drwxrwxr-x. 2 account group 45 Apr 21 05:47 123 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 account group 4 A