Bug#163988: libc6: hardlinks acress directories in tar archive
reassign 163988 dpkg
severity 163988 wishlist
thanks
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:43:24PM +0200, Joerg Sommer wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.2.5-14.3
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to install Debian on AFS, but AFS doesn't support hard links
> across directories. So libc6 isn't installable and the whole system, too.
>
> dpkg --fsys-tarfile libc6_2.2.5-14.3.deb | LANG=C tar vt | grep 'link to'
>
> Could you replace these hard links by symlinks? Or tell how can I remove
> these from the package at installation time?
Sorry, but if we remove those hardlinks, the package size will grow
tremendously. Symlinks just wont cut it.
I'm putting this to dpkg to implement. It should take into account
hardlinks not working, but I consider it a wishlist, not "important".
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