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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140175
Summary: mishandling of symbolic links
Product: digikam
Version: unspecified
Platform: Gentoo Packages
OS/Version: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
AssignedTo: digikam-devel kde org
ReportedBy: pjlv mega ist utl pt
Version: 0.9.1-svn (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from: Gentoo Packages
Compiler: gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse,387 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -O2 -pipe"
OS: Linux
I'm creating sub-albums of my main albums where I symlink the files
corresponding to my selected pictures to geotag and comment and later to publish on the web. So far it works well: digikam displays the pictures (symlinks) correctly in the sub-album and if I change the picture in the main album, it shows up changed in the sub album.
The issue is doing it the other way around: changing pictures in the sub album (changing/adding tags) does a strange thing. The symlink is replaced by the changed file and the source file is replaced by another with the same name and with size 0. Like this:
before:
pjlv archon ... $ ls -l 20061231T180626.JPG ../20061231T180626.JPG
... 3569645 Jan 2 01:34 ../20061231T180626.JPG
... 22 Jan 16 12:50 20061231T180626.JPG -> ../20061231T180626.JPG
after:
pjlv archon ... $ ls -l 20061231T180626.JPG ../20061231T180626.JPG
... 0 Jan 16 13:13 ../20061231T180626.JPG
... 3569742 Jan 16 13:13 20061231T180626.JPG
I understand that this technique may seem a dirty hack to "fool" digikam, but nevertheless, it should handle symlinks like symlinks.
How to reproduce:
0. select an album [~/album]
1. create a sub-album (on digikam or on the shell) [~/album/subalbum]
2. symlink an image from the album into sub-album (on the shell) [~/album/subalbum/img001.jpg -> ~/album/subalbum/img001.jpg]
3. navigate into the sub-album folder and change the comment of the linked image file
4. watch the resulting files [~/album/subalbum/img001.jpg (should have 0 bytes), ~/album/subalbum/img001.jpg (shoud no longer be a symlink and is the altered image file)]
Expected behaviour:
4. the symlink in ~/album/subalbum/img001.jpg remains a symlink to ~/album/img001.jpg and ~/album/img001.jpg is changed to reflect the new comment tag.
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