From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 17:10:43 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: keeping symlinks as links, since otherwise we cannot use this handy script to backup... 
X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~697
X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=546d89a985ece7dcf4c4080383287635efe6e131;p=feisty_meow.git

keeping symlinks as links, since otherwise we cannot use this handy script to backup things like a wine prefix to collect a game's latest state.  this does mean we no longer copy the actual data of the symlink, but that has been shown many times to be a bad thing anyway...
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diff --git a/scripts/files/zip_directories.sh b/scripts/files/zip_directories.sh
index 5a603b4d..fce35b43 100644
--- a/scripts/files/zip_directories.sh
+++ b/scripts/files/zip_directories.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ function flattenizer()
     done
     if [ ! -z "$dirname" -a -d "$dirname" ]; then
       echo "flattening '$dirname'..."
-      zip -rm "${dirname}_$(date_stringer).zip" "$dirname" &>/dev/null
+      zip --symlinks -rm "${dirname}_$(date_stringer).zip" "$dirname" &>/dev/null
     fi
   done
 }