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? Is seems that long path names are the problem. I've attached a shell script that creates a package that demonstrates the problem. I'll debug dpkg to find out if this is a bug in dpkg or ext3. The attached script creates a small test package in /var/tmp/dpkg-hard-link-problem.
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dpkg-hard-link-problem.sh
Description: Shell script that builds a package that demonstrates the hard link problem