[tex-live] Re: Re: Symbolic linking fails

[Christian Lasarczyk]

Hi,

Klaus Hoeppner reported the same bug with his Debian 3.1 system, but he
succeed with self-compiled binaries (thanks). People like me (unable to
mount an iso-image or burn a dvd) maybe can also download "unzip" binary
from homepage (http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html), install it
into an local directory, ensure it is first on the PATH and then install
TexLive 2005. My little test script is fine with this solution, I will
check TexLive CD on Monday.  Funny: the binaries are zipped and contain
symbolic links, but just ignore the warnings :).


Best regards,
    Christian

Christian Lasarczyk wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I created a minimal script (attachment) to show the problem and hope
> people can test this on other systems. Here are the different outputs:
> 
> Debian, ERROR:
> ./unziptest.sh
> insgesamt 8
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 lasar ls11   3 2005-11-27 10:38 bar -> foo
> -rw-r-----  1 lasar ls11  13 2005-11-27 10:38 foo
> -rwxr-x---  1 lasar ls11 314 2005-11-27 10:37 unziptest.sh
>   adding: foo (deflated 8%)
>   adding: bar (stored 0%)
> Archive:  my.zip
>   Length     Date   Time    Name
>  --------    ----   ----    ----
>        13  11-27-05 10:38   foo
>         3  11-27-05 10:38   bar
>  --------                   -------
>        16                   2 files
> Archive:  my.zip
>   inflating: foo
>     linking: bar                     warning:  symbolic link (bar) failed
> 
> insgesamt 16
> -rw-r-----  1 lasar ls11   3 2005-11-27 10:38 bar
> -rw-r-----  1 lasar ls11  13 2005-11-27 10:38 foo
> -rw-r-----  1 lasar ls11 269 2005-11-27 10:38 my.zip
> -rwxr-x---  1 lasar ls11 314 2005-11-27 10:37 unziptest.sh
> foolasar at mixi ....
> 
> ---
> Opensuse, FINE:
> 
> ./unziptest.sh
> insgesamt 8
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 lasar users   3 2005-11-27 10:36 bar -> foo
> -rw-r--r--  1 lasar users  13 2005-11-27 10:36 foo
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 lasar users 314 2005-11-27 10:36 unziptest.sh
>   adding: foo (deflated 8%)
>   adding: bar (stored 0%)
> Archive:  my.zip
>   Length     Date   Time    Name
>  --------    ----   ----    ----
>        13  11-27-05 10:36   foo
>         3  11-27-05 10:36   bar
>  --------                   -------
>        16                   2 files
> Archive:  my.zip
>   inflating: foo
>     linking: bar                     -> foo
> finishing deferred symbolic links:
>   bar                    -> foo
> insgesamt 12
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 lasar users   3 2005-11-27 10:36 bar -> foo
> -rw-r--r--  1 lasar users  13 2005-11-27 10:36 foo
> -rw-r--r--  1 lasar users 269 2005-11-27 10:36 my.zip
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 lasar users 314 2005-11-27 10:36 unziptest.sh
> testTestTEST
> 
> 
> The last lines and the line containing the warning are the most
> interesting ones. I would be glad, if someone with an uptodate Debian
> system could check if she/he can observer the same problem. If so, you
> could remove symbolic links from zip and create them automatically in the
> installation script.
> 
> Best regards,
>     Christian
> 
> 
> 
> Karl Berry wrote:
> 
>>     I want to supplement, that installation is fine on my home system
>> 
>> Glad to hear it.
>> 
>> If an unzip refuses to do anything with symbolic links, I don't see
>> there's much we can do about that.  I hope you or someone can
>> investigate to see when and why it really fails.
>> 
>> Best,
>> karl