From 612fa046f52ef1db7335b8279fc3e987d784e93a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shahzad Malik Muzaffar <Shahzad.Malik.Muzaffar@cern.ch>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:52:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] create symlinks for data files so that removed data files are
 not pickedup from release src

---
 git-cms-checkdeps | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-cms-checkdeps b/git-cms-checkdeps
index 6162fa2..d62e67b 100755
--- a/git-cms-checkdeps
+++ b/git-cms-checkdeps
@@ -269,15 +269,20 @@ sub poisonIncludes() {
     use File::Basename qw(dirname);
     my $poison="${topdir}/${poisondir}";
     if (-d $poison){rmtree($poison);}
+    my $poisondata = "$poison/.data";
+    mkpath($poisondata);
     if (scalar(@$deletedFiles)>0) {print ">> Creating dummy files under $poison directory.\n";}
     foreach my $file (@$deletedFiles) {
         my $f="${poison}/${file}";
         my $dir=dirname($f);
         if (!-d $dir){mkpath($dir);}
-        my $ref;
-        if(!open($ref,">${f}")){die "ERROR: Can not open file for writing: $f\n";}
-        print $ref "#error THIS FILE HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE PACKAGE.\n";
-        close($ref);
+        if ($file=~/\/data\//o){symlink("$poisondata","$f");}
+        else{
+          my $ref;
+          if(!open($ref,">${f}")){die "ERROR: Can not open file for writing: $f\n";}
+          print $ref "#error THIS FILE HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE PACKAGE.\n";
+          close($ref);
+        }
         print "   $file\n";
     }
 }