cyclic symbolic link in /usr/local/share/nls/C

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 08:51:48AM +0200, Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> why is, regardless of freebsd version in /usr/local/share/nls/C the
> following symbolic link to itself
> 
> C -> C
> 
> , why not .keep_me or something?
> 
> It somtimes lets find operations fail (too much redirections). After
> deletion it reappears mysteriously.

That would appear to be a bug: the layout should be equivalent to
/usr/share/nls/C 

Hmmm... This has already been reported.  See
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/57488

Until the fix gets committed, the self referring link will be
recreated any time you install or update a port under /usr/local that
causes mtree(8) to be run.  Interestingly the same problem does not
occur in /usr/X11R6/share/nls/C

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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