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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] findutils
  • Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:04:41 +0100

On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 01:51:16AM +0100, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 08:16:35PM +0100, Thomas Houssin wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:50:06 -0800
> > Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
> >
> > > Quoting Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>:
> > > > for the last few days I get lots of messages of the type
> > > >
> > > > find: /home/treeve/p4/misc/ndiswrapper: Too many levels of symbolic
> > links
> > > >
> > > > when I do 'scribe reindex'
> > > >
> > > > My ~/p4/misc directory contains symlinks to various spells from the
> > devel
> > > > grimoire
> > > >
> > > > The problem seems to have started when findutils was updated to
> > 4.2.18.
> >
> > Same problem here... I think we hit this bug in findutils 4.2.18 :
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=12181
> >
> > It could be useful to add an option to build from CVS, or add a patch in
> > the grimoire for that, couldn't it ? ;)
>
> Definitely, we should either downgrade or get a patch from their cvs to
> fix it. If no one else wants to do it I'll see if I can find time
> tomorrow to get a patch ready.

Took a little longer, but the patch is now in devel and test and UPDATED
of findutils was updated.

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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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