[Digikam-devel] [Bug 109820] Offer: Utility script to export tag information of images into the filesystem

Mats Ahlgren ahlgren at mit.edu
Sat Aug 5 04:16:33 BST 2006


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------- Additional Comments From ahlgren mit edu  2006-08-05 05:16 -------
Rainer--

I did a quick test of the script.

1) suggestion: Amendment to help:
  -A <arDir>   [add: "Alternative to -l."] Create selfcontained...
["root and arDir have to be on the *same* filesystem!" -- I don't understand what you mean]

2) In regular mode, moving the linktree folder still destroys the symlinks; why not just make them hardlinks in regular mode?

3)
> No, not exactly:-) I want to implement this:
> {linktree} <--[hard links]--> {photo directory} <--[hard links]-->{digiKam collection}
>
> Without hard links in the "export"-directory linking from "export/linktree" to "export/photo directory"
> you cannot move the  linktree  to somewhere else because this would  break (relativ) soft  links.
> However this was "Problem 2" you described in your Mail from 2006-07-28 (Comment #15).
> Absolute soft links are no good because of  "Problem 1". 
By the way, I still don't understand why you're using hard links rather than symlinks in Archive Mode? It defeats the purpose of my original suggestion for an -A option, which was to send tarballs to friends via email. (One might as well just ignore the Photo directory and make the linktree out of hardlinks, but that creates a problem where the archive size can potentially be up to T times larger than necessary, where T = the number of tags, perhaps 100.) I'm just abit confused why you implemented an Archive option if not for sending tarballs... If there's a problem with symlinks...
> The problems I described were problems that arise when creating the photo linktree structure
... then I'm still confused as to what it is, if you'd be so kind as to elucidate.



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