Unable to share files/directories in home directory #475
Description
When attempting to use --share on files or directories in the home directory, they are not shared. With the share target --share=$HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions, these lines are generated in containerrc:
165 mkdir -p /home/linolium/.local/share/gnome-shell
166 ln -s '/home.host/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions' -T '/home/linolium/.local/share/gnome-shell'
This results in the error:
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/linolium/.local/share/gnome-shell': File exists
Based on ln's man page, seems like -T is for specifying the exact name of the symbolic link being created:
SYNOPSIS
ln [OPTION]... [-T] TARGET LINK_NAME
DESCRIPTION
In the 1st form, create a link to TARGET with the name LINK_NAME.
So I believe the correct command should be one of the following:
ln -s '/home.host/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions' '/home/linolium/.local/share/gnome-shell'
ln -s '/home.host/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions' -T '/home/linolium/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions'
The -T flag was added in 514817f and a2a3a90 to deal with issue #384. Unless I'm missing something, the second commit is incorrect. The line in question should be changed to one of these two options:
echo "ln -s '$Path' '$(dirname "$Line")'"
echo "ln -s '$Path' -T '$Line'"
I'd choose the second option, since it is less ambiguous.
In the meantime, a workaround is using --runasuser, e.g.
--runasuser='ln -s /home.host/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions ~/.local/share/gnome-shell'