Re: Reliably deleting empty directories and creating symlinks

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Stefan,

On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 6:09=E2=80=AFPM Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]> =
wrote:

> On 2025-08-06, Bridger Dyson-Smith wrote:
>
> > I've been working with the assumption that I may be either updating an
> > existing install (ie I have symlinks) or I am installing fresh (ie I ha=
ve
> > empty directories), so the tasks are... uh, probably unnecessarily
> verbose
> > (suggestions for improvements welcome).
>
> <symlink action=3D"delete" failonerror=3D"false"/> should remove the syml=
ink
> if it exists and not do anything if it doesn't. So this should be a
> reliable way to delete it without required ant-contrib.
>
> >       <delete removenotfollowedsymlinks=3D"true" failonerror=3D"false">
> >         <fileset followsymlinks=3D"false" dir=3D"${basex-home}/data"/>
> >       </delete>
>
> I'm surprised this works on FreeBSD as I don't think we'd record "." as
> not followed symlink at all - haven't checked the code.
>
>        <delete removenotfollowedsymlinks=3D"true" failonerror=3D"false">
>          <fileset followsymlinks=3D"false" dir=3D"${basex-home}">
>            <include name=3D"data"/>
>          </fileset>
>        </delete>
>
> should probably work but I'd go with <symlink action=3D"delete">.
>

I really appreciate the pointer - it's a big help! Thanks for your time.

>
> Stefan
>
Best,
Bridger

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