Re: hardlinks in packages -- unusable in AFS
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Joerg Sommer wrote:
> I think I found a way: dpkg calls /bin/tar to extract the tar archive of
> the debian package. So if a replace /bin/tar with a script, that calls
> star -symlink, I can unpack the package the same way like in a normal fs.
> But this script couldn't only call star, because star doesn't accept the
> same parameters like tar. star whants -x -f instead of xf. And you
> couldn't determine correctly, how calls the faked /bin/tar.
dpkg has internal tar.
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