Bug#675920: xulrunner-dev: Please do not use hard links

Erik Braun erik.braun at uni-jena.de
Mon Jun 4 08:10:23 UTC 2012


On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Mike Hommey wrote:

>> Please do not use hard links. Users of (file-)systems without hard
>> link support across directories, e. g. OpenAFS, cannot simply install
>> this package with "aptitude".
[...]
> What files are hardlinked?

Sorry, I forgot that detail:

# aptitude safe-upgrade
[...]
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xulrunner-dev_10.0.4esr-3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
  error creating hard link `./usr/include/xulrunner-10.0/mozilla/dom/TabMessageUtils.h': Invalid cross-device link
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

# find xulrunner-10.0 -type f -links +1
xulrunner-10.0/mozilla/dom/TabMessageUtils.h
xulrunner-10.0/TabMessageUtils.h







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