Stefan,
On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 2025-08-06, Bridger Dyson-Smith wrote:
>
> > I've been working with the assumption that I may be either updating an
> > existing install (ie I have symlinks) or I am installing fresh (ie I have
> > empty directories), so the tasks are... uh, probably unnecessarily
> verbose
> > (suggestions for improvements welcome).
>
> <symlink action="delete" failonerror="false"/> should remove the symlink
> if it exists and not do anything if it doesn't. So this should be a
> reliable way to delete it without required ant-contrib.
>
> > <delete removenotfollowedsymlinks="true" failonerror="false">
> > <fileset followsymlinks="false" dir="${basex-home}/data"/>
> > </delete>
>
> I'm surprised this works on FreeBSD as I don't think we'd record "." as
> not followed symlink at all - haven't checked the code.
>
> <delete removenotfollowedsymlinks="true" failonerror="false">
> <fileset followsymlinks="false" dir="${basex-home}">
> <include name="data"/>
> </fileset>
> </delete>
>
> should probably work but I'd go with <symlink action="delete">.
>
I really appreciate the pointer - it's a big help! Thanks for your time.
>
> Stefan
>
Best,
Bridger
>
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