Re: hardlinks in packages -- unusable in AFS

[Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:03:46PM +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote:
> I have some packages (j2re1.3, libc6) they contain hardlinks in the
> tarfile. But afs doesn't support hardlinks accross directories. So
> installation of these packages fails. What can I do?
> 
> My only idea is, to install the package by hand in a normal directory and
> copy the files into the afs.
> 
> dpkg --fsys-tarfile package.deb | tar x
> 
> But how can I set the state of the package to installed?
> 
> Or what is a better choise?

Fixing AFS.

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