tentative fix for private-etc in NixOS - issue 4887

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/fcopy/main.c b/src/fcopy/main.c
index c64d20127..3f2d3137f 100644
--- a/src/fcopy/main.c
+++ b/src/fcopy/main.c
@@ -402,6 +402,16 @@ static void duplicate_link(const char *src, const char *dest, struct stat *s) {
         gid_t gid = s->st_gid;
         mode_t mode = s->st_mode;
 
+        // NixOS problem #4887:
+        //      /etc/fonts is a double symlink to a directory - copy the files instead of copying the symlink
+        //      they could have some other dirs handled this way, so let's do it for all files in /etc
+        if (strncmp(src, "/etc/", 5) == 0) {
+                duplicate_dir(src, dest, s);
+                free(rsrc);
+                free(rdest);
+                return;
+        }
+
         // build destination file name
         char *name;
         //     char *ptr = strrchr(rsrc, '/');