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dist tarball contains hardlinks

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From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling <at> fokus.fraunhofer.de>
To: <praiskup <at> redhat.com>, <bug-tar <at> gnu.org>
Cc: jimis <at> gmx.net, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] dist tarball contains hardlinks
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:44:22 +0100

Pavel Raiskup <praiskup <at> redhat.com> wrote:

> On Monday 26 of January 2015 12:12:09 Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> >
> > > On Friday 23 of January 2015 15:45:57 Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> > >> Thank you Joerg. If so then it is an issue that must be fixed in
> > >> automake, which is the reason I cross-posted to both projects, because I
> > >> am not sure which one should be changed!
> > >
> > > What solution you exactly propose?  Note that 'h' tar option is used for
> >
> > Maybe adding --hard-dereference? That's how I worked around the issue at
> > least.
>
> From the automake POV, this is not standardized option (could be used only
> for GNU tar if present though).

BTW: the german translation of the help output for that gtar option is rubbish.

Jörg

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