From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:52:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] t5002: check if unzip supports symlinks
Message-ID: <20130107085206.GI27909@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <50E9BB8B.9020101@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe wrote:

> Only add a symlink to the repository if both the filesystem and
> unzip support symlinks.  To check the latter, add a ZIP file
> containing a symlink, created like this with InfoZIP zip 3.0:
>
>	$ echo sample text >textfile
>	$ ln -s textfile symlink
>	$ zip -y infozip-symlinks.zip textfile symlink

Hm.  Do some implementations of "unzip" not support symlinks, or is
the problem that some systems build Info-ZIP without the SYMLINKS
option?