[hardening-discuss] Bug#615262: error creating hard link `./usr/bin/ld': No such file or directory

[Jonathan Nieder]

reassign 615262 binutils,hardening-wrapper
found 615262 binutils/2.21.0.20110216-2
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Peter Palfrader wrote:

>> While trying to upgrade binutils on ia64 (merulo) in the sid chroot:
>>
>> | Preparing to replace binutils 2.20.1-16 (using .../binutils_2.21.0.20110216-2_ia64.deb) ...
>> | Unpacking replacement binutils ...
>> | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/binutils_2.21.0.20110216-2_ia64.deb (--unpack):
>> |  error creating hard link `./usr/bin/ld': No such file or directory
>
> This looks related to <http://bugs.debian.org/245322>.  One way to
> solve it might be to pre-depend on a version of dpkg with that fixed
> (only if the consensus on debian-devel is that that such a
> pre-dependency is worth it, of course).

Hm, I don't like the idea of such a pre-dependency in binutils but it
is the only way to avoid this error I can think of.  Matthias, any
thoughts?

Jonathan