Bug#28670: dpkg cross-device link problem
eichin@thok.org (Mark W. Eichin) wrote on 28.10.98 in <[🔎] xe1emrss49z.fsf@paycheck.thok.org>:
> found it:
>
> % ls -ali /usr/bin/m68k-palmos-coff-nm /usr/m68k-palmos-coff/bin/nm
> 174487 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 162652 Oct 19 15:25
> /usr/bin/m68k-palmos-coff-nm* 174487 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root
> 162652 Oct 19 15:25 /usr/m68k-palmos-coff/bin/nm*
>
> I think it is reasonable for those to be hardlinked, but they should
> end up copied if that isn't possible (I have /usr/m68k-palmos-coff off
> on another partition...)
Why not symlinked? Everything else is. Packages should probably come
without *any* hard links at all.
MfG Kai
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