Zip Archive: aliases, symlinks

[anonymous]

Downloading source from the Trac Browsers "Zip Archive" generates Mac aliases or symlinks as files instead of links.

[anonymous]

not sure if this helps any but here's a link to a link to a solution to symlinks using zipfile.

​http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-June/328433.html

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[Remy Blank]

Correct, Trac doesn't handle symlinks in zip archives.

[izzysoft@…]

This ticket now is already 3 years old. Will there be worked on? I nkow that ZIP cannot handle symlinks, but there still could be something done:

• create .tar.gz files as an alternative to .zip
• ommit the symlinks, and instead add some shell script to create them (this requires a reserved file name for the shell script)
• simply ommit the symlinks

To chose the required action, some option in trac.ini could be used. The current behavior may cause problems in special cases, when e.g. the symlink en to the directory en_US gets converted into a file, and the program expects it to be a directory.

[Thijs Triemstra]

Replying to anonymous:

not sure if this helps any but here's a link to a link to a solution to symlinks using zipfile.

​http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-June/328433.html

It's off of the Python mailing list

Looks like that should be ​http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-June/936407.html..

[Thijs Triemstra]

I think this ticket is blocked by #4788.

[Remy Blank]

Refocusing.

[Jun Omae]

Trac handles symlink and executable in only Subversion repository, since Trac 1.0.2 [11745] (#8919). However, symlink and executable in Git and Mercurial repository are not handled.

I consider we could add islink and isexecutable methods to Node class and implement the methods in each repository.