[CMake] TGZ installer following links

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2011-06-21 08:28-0400 Brad King wrote:

> On 06/17/2011 04:59 PM, Eric Noulard wrote:
>> OK I have the same behavior on my box using your example.
>> I did open a bug report:
>> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12284
>
> I posted an explanation here:
>
>  http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=12284#c26931
>
> CPack recursively collects all *files* in the installation tree and hands
> them as individual paths to the archive tool.  Therefore it walks through
> the directory symlink and collects the files inside.  This has existed in
> every version of CPack both before and after the switch to libarchive.

So it is not a regression, but in my opinion it is still a bug.

More comments at http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12284.

Please fix.

Alan
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