[Nix-dev] /etc/skel, useradd - resolve symlinks before copying?

[Florian Friesdorf]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 03:09:13PM +0100, Marc Weber wrote:
> Excerpts from Florian Friesdorf's message of Sat Feb 12 14:39:22 +0100 2011:
> > Does it need to be a symlink at all or could the nix expression just
> > generate a file
> 
> Of course it can.
> Have a look at nixos/modules/system/etc/setup-etc.pl
> 
>   # Remove dangling symlinks that point to /etc/static.  These are
>   # [..]
>   sub cleanup {
> 
> So files won't dangle. So you have to do extra book keeping then.
> That's why I suggested patching useradd instead.

+1

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