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dist tarball contains hardlinks

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From: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis <at> gmx.net>
To: 19616 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling <at> fokus.fraunhofer.de>, Pavel Raiskup <praiskup <at> redhat.com>, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, bug-tar <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#19616: [Bug-tar] dist tarball contains hardlinks
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:29:21 +0100 (CET)

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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
>
> I believe my only choice at this point is to forbid "make dist" if tar is 
> detected to be old (less than 1.29), and keep doing --hard-dereference. I 
> open to new ideas though. :-)

The attached patch solves the problem in a more elegant manner IMHO, 
so I plan to include this modified tar.m4 in my project.

Review is welcome, and feel free to include to upstream automake.


Dimitris

[0001-GNU-Tar-now-uses-hard-dereference-when-possible.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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