Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] The concept of following symlinks

["James \"Doc\" Livingston" <doclivingston gmail com>]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:16 +0800, Thomas Zander wrote:
> cd /path/to/library
> ln -s artist/album/file1.ogg some/path/filename.ogg
> 
> and the file is imported into the RB data base once.
> 
> Example 2:
> cd /path/to/library
> ln -s artist/album artist/album2
> 
> and all the files in artist/album appear twice in the RB data base.
> (Please don't think about the relevance of this example at the moment.
> I just noticed.)
> 
> Is this intentional or is there just no policy how to deal with
> symlinks right now?

That sounds like a bug in the symlink-detecting logic. I'll try to take
a look at it soon, but if you could file a bug at bugzilla.gnome.org
that will make sure we don't forget about it.


Cheers,

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