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| author | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2022-08-06 10:27:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2022-08-06 10:27:30 -0700 |
| commit | 8b0b1287ab124a908bb5414a7578eabc66b149bf (patch) | |
| tree | 82b684e0d902ed17face7c5a7d101436515509c2 | |
| parent | d346e769f49b9dcad1840036b38cd07e067a7e8b (diff) | |
| download | consfigurator-8b0b1287ab124a908bb5414a7578eabc66b149bf.tar.gz | |
FILE:SYMLINKED: document that the link target is literal
Reported-by: Andreas Reuleaux <rx@a-rx.info>
Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
| -rw-r--r-- | src/property/file.lisp | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/property/file.lisp b/src/property/file.lisp index 5f0f480..9712571 100644 --- a/src/property/file.lisp +++ b/src/property/file.lisp @@ -224,7 +224,12 @@ Uses CL-PPCRE:REGEX-REPLACE, which see for the syntax of REPLACE." (defprop symlinked :posix (&key from to) "Ensure FROM is a symlink to TO. Symbolic links are overwritten; it is an -error if FROM is another kind of file, except when unapplying." +error if FROM is another kind of file, except when unapplying. + +The link target, TO, is literal: if it is a relative path, then it is not +relative to the remote home directory, but instead relative to the directory +that contains FROM. To create a link with a target under the remote home +directory, you can use one or more '../', or an absolute path." (:desc #?"Symlinked ${from} -> ${to}") (:apply (unless (and from to) |