GNU bug report logs - #19616
dist tarball contains hardlinks

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis <at> gmx.net>

Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:44:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: jimis <at> gmx.net, 19616 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-tar <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#19616: [Bug-tar] dist tarball contains hardlinks
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:47:36 -0800

Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> Why is such behaviour desirable?

It's more logical, since it causes tar to behave as if the symlink were not 
there, and the pointed-to file was there instead.

Using -hard-dereference bloats the tar image, but if that's a price you're 
willing to pay then you have a solution to the problem.
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