Bug#154169: mklibs: bug re-introduces (symlinks)

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> writes:

> On Wed Jul 24, 2002 at 11:28:46AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 07:42:24PM +0200, Thomas Poindessous wrote:
> > > Hi, I tried to rebuild d-i and I looked that symlinks of /lib/ld-2.2.5 to
> > > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (and others) was missing.
> > 
> > Please remind me: why do we need to preserve these symlinks?
> 
> The only reason for the symlinks is to make it easy to upgrade
> libraries -- not something the installer needs to worry about...
> Sure, just install the libs with their proper .so names and we
> can save (1 inode + ~4k)/per symlink from the installer rootfs.

The symlinks are converted to hardlinks, so they only take up space in
the directory, but usually not enough to push it over 1k, so it saves
not a single byte.

-- 
	Falk


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