Re: error creating hard link

[Andreas Voegele <voegelas@gmx.net>]

Adam Heath writes:

> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Andreas Voegele wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just built my own GNUstep package.  When I try to install the
>> package I get the following error message.
>>
>> Unpacking gnustep-base (from .../gnustep-base_1.7.1_i586-linux.deb) ...
>> dpkg: error processing /var/tmp/sos/gnustep-base/gnustep-base_1.7.1_i586-linux.deb (--install):
>>  error creating hard link `./usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/Resources/gnustep-base/NSTimeZones/zones/Australia/Yancowinna': No such file or directory
>>
>> [...]
>
> What filesystem?

ext3.  I've just updated the kernel from Linux 2.4.19 to 2.4.21.
GNUstep installs the time zone files by unpacking a tar archive:

after-install::
	cp $(TIMEZONE_ARCHIVE) $(resourcedir); \
	cd $(resourcedir); \
        [...]
	rm -rf NSTimeZones; \
	tar -xf $(TIMEZONE_ARCHIVE); \
        [...]

I use tar 1.13.25 from alpha.gnu.org.  Here's a fragment of the
archive's listing:

-rw-r--r-- root/richard      790 2002-09-30 11:20:38 NSTimeZones/zones/Australia/Broken_Hill
[...]
-rw-r--r-- root/richard        0 2002-09-30 11:20:38 NSTimeZones/zones/Australia/Yancowinna link to NSTimeZones/zones/Australia/Broken_Hill