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November 18th, 2001, 01:17 PM
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| follow your customers links
we use links to move folders from one disk to another without breaking the directory structure (like moving Applications to another disk partition. It works fine until we use some king of update (like 10.1.1) that kills the ln -s link to replace it by a regular directory. Please Apple, follow your customers links instead of replacing these.
__________________ My current machine is an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 24" and a MacBook Pro 13" with MacOS X 10.6. My oldest Apple was born in 1977. GS/P/>SS d-(++) s+: a+ C+(C) U* P L+ E--- W++ N- o+ K? w O-- M++ V PS+ PE+ Y- PGP t+ 5 X+ R tv-- b+++ DI++ D+ G e+++ h---- r+++ y? Time is not changing, I'm just traveling through time.  |
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November 18th, 2001, 01:38 PM
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| It's not a solution...
...but have you tried, rather than a softlink, actually mounting a disk partition at /Applications? I'm afraid I don't know whether pax will cross mount points, but we know all to well that it won't follow soft links, so it can't be any worse than the current situation...
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November 18th, 2001, 03:38 PM
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My partition is named Applications. But I need a soft link in System X disk for the systeme to find it.
__________________ My current machine is an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 24" and a MacBook Pro 13" with MacOS X 10.6. My oldest Apple was born in 1977. GS/P/>SS d-(++) s+: a+ C+(C) U* P L+ E--- W++ N- o+ K? w O-- M++ V PS+ PE+ Y- PGP t+ 5 X+ R tv-- b+++ DI++ D+ G e+++ h---- r+++ y? Time is not changing, I'm just traveling through time. |
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November 19th, 2001, 12:33 AM
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What I'm suggesting is that you might add a startup item like umount /Volumes/Applications mount -t hfs -w /dev/diskXsY /Applications Where X and Y correspond to the right partition for your apps partition. That way there would be no softlink for Apple's installer to munge. The only way for it to write something to the wrong place should be to first unmount the disk, then write the files onto the same partition as /.
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