18 Aug
2005
18 Aug
'05
12:04 p.m.
I was trying to use the distutils sdist target on an AFS mounted filesystem on Linux. It fails because it can't make hard links between directories on AFS (you can inside a directory). I have not been able to find any options to make it copy the files instead. 1) Is there a way for me to force it to copy the files into the temporary directory instead of using hard links? 2) Given that it is very hard to predict whether a particular usage of hard links is possible on any given OS/filesystem/mount combination. It seems to me that the best strategy would be to try to make the hard links, and if this fails, silently fall back to making a copy. /Bo Bai