From: Franek Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 09:07:09 +0000 (-0400) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Tag: debian/3.20140102~54^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/9c69f0f913bc0ab3224bf8008ca02d722d47e0b9?hp=002a97ffcdf347b8ad97210ddb5badacd3fee712 --- diff --git a/doc/forum/ikiwiki_not_usable_when_installed_with_toast___40__because_of_symlinks__41__.mdwn b/doc/forum/ikiwiki_not_usable_when_installed_with_toast___40__because_of_symlinks__41__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a59d0c748 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/ikiwiki_not_usable_when_installed_with_toast___40__because_of_symlinks__41__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Ikiwiki is not usable when installed to a user’s $HOME with toast [[http://www.toastball.net/toast/]], as toast installs everything as symlinks, which Ikiwiki does not take well: + + $ ikiwiki --rebuild --setup Testwiki.setup + cannot read a symlink (/home/franek/.toast/armed/usr/ local/share/ikiwiki/ basewiki/shortcuts.mdwn) + +I am aware that Ikiwiki does not allow symlinks in srcdir for security reasons http://ikiwiki.info/ [no space here, see below] security/#index18h2. I do not see, however, why this restriction should apply to basewiki or other not user-created files, which are not modifiable by committers anyway. + +If this is correct, can that be fixed (easily)? + + +(NOTE: There are artificial whitespaces in the path to shortcuts.mdwn above, because on my first attempt to save this entry I got a message that Blogspam would not allow it because of the length of this string. Also, I had to reformat some of the links, which where to long for BlogSpam as well.)