[mythtv] SVN won't delete symlinks

Chris Pinkham cpinkham at bc2va.org
Mon Aug 7 19:37:30 UTC 2006


* On Mon Aug 07, 2006 at 02:28:46PM -0400, Dan Wilga wrote:
> In order to make space on my media volume, I often move recordings 
> over to an NFS volume and replace them on the primary volume with a 
> symlink.
> 
> Since updating to 10665, I've found that mythfrontend can no longer 
> delete the symlinks. Hitting the D key causes the item to disappear 
> momentarily from the list, but it reappears a few seconds later. The 
> symlink is untouched.

Run the backend with the "-v file" option and look in the logs to see
if you see any messages relating to deleting the file or symlink.

This may be an issue with the throttled delete patch, but I don't
recall anyone else reporting problems with it.

--
Chris


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