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Bug#494313: marked as done (tzdata: Please do not use hard links)

Your message dated Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:17:26 +0200
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and subject line Re: tzdata: Please do not use hard links
has caused the Debian Bug report #494313,
regarding tzdata: Please do not use hard links
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Package: tzdata
Version: 2007j-1etch1
Severity: wishlist


Please do not use hard links. Users of (file-)systems without hard link
support, e. g. OpenAFS, cannot simply install this package with "aptitude".

The benefit of using hard links instad of symbolic links or copies of the
same files is quite marginal:

# tar xzf data.tar.gz
# du -ks usr/
5756    usr/

# zcat data.tar.gz | star -x -copyhardlinks
# du -ks usr/
7192    usr/

Compared to the - in the case of tzdata quite frequent - hassle of
installing a package with hard links, the saved diskspace of about
2,5 Mbyte is almost worth nothing.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.18
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 2011h-4

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:30:28PM +0200, Erik Braun wrote:
> Package: tzdata
> Version: 2007j-1etch1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> Please do not use hard links. Users of (file-)systems without hard link
> support, e. g. OpenAFS, cannot simply install this package with "aptitude".
> 
> The benefit of using hard links instad of symbolic links or copies of the
> same files is quite marginal:
> 
> # tar xzf data.tar.gz
> # du -ks usr/
> 5756    usr/
> 
> # zcat data.tar.gz | star -x -copyhardlinks
> # du -ks usr/
> 7192    usr/
> 
> Compared to the - in the case of tzdata quite frequent - hassle of
> installing a package with hard links, the saved diskspace of about
> 2,5 Mbyte is almost worth nothing.
> 

This bug has been fixed in version 2011h-4, using symlinks instead of
hardlinks. Marking the bug as fixed.

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
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