Re: [Findutils-patches] speed up gnulib updates

[James Youngman]

On 6/28/07, Eric Blake-1 <address@hidden> wrote:
> OK to apply to branch and head?

Yes for both 4.2 and 4.3.     (On the assumption that the module list
for 4.2 is unchanged apart from the format)

> Two other issues discovered during this patch:
> James, do you have write access to the savannah CVS repository,
> to do 'chmod +x import-gnulib.sh,v', or do I need to get Jim
> Meyering to do that?  It's annoying to have to do
> 'sh ./import-gnulib.sh'.


Sorry I have no access.

> Also, 'man find' is a bit misleading.  Under -L, it states "Using -L
> causes the -lname and -ilname predicates always to return
> false."  But in reality, -lname is correct in documenting that "If
> the -L option or the -follow option is in effect, this test returns
> false unless the symbolic link is broken."  Hence a very easy
> way to find and nuke leftover broken symlinks.


That's a documentation bug.

James.