[HPADM] Summary: Relative symlinks in swpackage

From: Peter Oliver (peter.oliver_at_aquila-networks.co.uk)
Date: 09/17/04

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    I asked:

    > Does anyone know if it's possible to create relative symlinks
    > in swpackage? I've tried using a relative path in the PSF,
    > but I just get an absolute symlink that points to a location
    > relative to wherever I happened to run the swpackage command.

    Bob Campbell confirmed that it's possible to create such relative
    symlinks, pointing out that you can list them with "swlist -file -a type
    -a link_source". He also suggested that symlinks could be created by a
    control script.

    The solution turned out not to lie in the PSF at all, but rather in the
    follow_symlinks option to swpackage(1m). You create the symlink on your
    filesystem and then package it as a regular file. For instance:

    cd /tmp
    ln -s relative-symlink-target relative-symlink
    swpackage -x follow_symlinks=false -s symlinks.psf

    Now, the key part of symlinks.psf is:

            fileset
                    tag test
                    file -t s /tmp/absolute-symlink-target /tmp/absolute-symlink
                    file /tmp/relative-symlink
            end

    This gives you a relative symlink
            relative-symlink -> relative-symlink-target
    and an absolute symlink
            absolute-symlink -> /tmp/absolute-symlink-target 

    -- 
Peter Oliver
IS Technical Environment Team
Central Networks
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