Bug?: Re: [Orgmode] Problem publishing symbolic links

[Aidan Gauland]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 06:35:12PM +0100, David Maus wrote:
> Org checks the file modification time to determine whether to
> republish a file or not.  Due to the nature of /sym/links their
> modification date does not change if the directory entry they are
> pointing to changes.

Then shouldn't Org-mode check the modification time of the *target*?

> Maybe you could use hard links instead of symlinks if the files you
> are linking exist on the same hard disk partition.  If this is not the
> case maybe using a command line tool that syncs the directories
> (e.g. rsync) could be an option (Cf. Manual, 13.1.2 Sources and
> destinations for files).

That's what I'll have to do.  This seems to be more of a workaround
than a solution, though.

--Aidan

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