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Bug 740551 - Follow symlinks when using the tarball exporting feature
Follow symlinks when using the tarball exporting feature
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: pitivi
Classification: Other
Component: General
Git
Other Linux
: Low enhancement
: Git
Assigned To: Pitivi maintainers
Pitivi maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-11-22 20:12 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2015-10-20 13:11 UTC
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2014-11-22 20:12:58 UTC 
To save space, I sometimes use soft symbolic links (you can create them with Nautilus, or using "ln -s") to avoid duplicating files

When creating the xges_tar tarball for export, we don't actually follow the links, so they end up getting packaged as (broken) links.

Instead the code should check if the link is still valid, and if so use its target (and rename it into the tarball to match the link's name).
Comment 1 Thibault Saunier 2015-10-20 13:11:37 UTC 
This bug has been migrated to https://phabricator.freedesktop.org/T3250.

Please use the Phabricator interface to report further bugs by creating a task and associating it with Project: Pitivi.

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