php-wpcli_latest_all.deb should be a copy instead of a symlink

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php-wpcli_latest_all.deb should be a copy instead of a symlink

mlang38 opened this issue 9 years ago · 2 comments

Hi,
if the "php-wpcli_latest_all.deb" is to provide easy downloading, it would be great if it were a copy of the latest deb, not a symlink. A symlink is unusable as is, whereas a copy could be downloaded by a wget in an automated provisioning script or recipe.

Please make a copy instead of linking in your building process.

Thank you 😉

Answer 1 · 2016-03-09T16:05:07.000Z

Others are complaining too isaacs/github#379

Answer 2 · 2016-03-09T16:07:24.000Z

Meanwhile

LATEST="https://github.com/wp-cli/builds/raw/gh-pages/deb/php-wpcli_latest_all.deb"
wget "$(dirname "$LATEST")/$(wget -qO- "$LATEST")"