Re: error creating hard link
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Andreas Voegele wrote:
>
> > It seems that I'll have to convert GNUstep's hard links into symbolic
> > links since dpkg cannot handle long names; cf. bug #128388: dpkg has
> > possible bug with handling of gnu longlink/longname.
>
> Oh, I know what this is.
>
> dpkg's tar handling with long names is buggy. It can only one of either a
> long name, or a long symlink target, where long is > 100 chars. There is a
> bug in the gnu long name/link support handling.
>
> Converting your deb to symlinks won't help in this case.
Actually, a work around would be to store the file in the deb, with 0 bytes,
and in your postinst, recreate it as a hard-link.
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