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

[Jonathan Nieder]

block 615262 by 245322
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Mats Erik Andersson wrote:

>   binutils_2.21.0.20110327-3_i386.deb
>
>       lrwxrwxrwx root/root   ./usr/bin/ld -> ld.bfd
>
>   binutils_2.21.51.20110421-3_kfreebsd-amd64.deb
>
>       hrwxr-xr-x root/root   ./usr/bin/ld link to ./usr/bin/ld.bfd
>
> However, in the presence of 'hardening-wrapper' the location
> '/usr/bin/ld.bfd' is a soft link. Therefore the hardlink install
> must fail. Right?

No, I don't think that's the reason.  This is a dpkg bug if I
understand correctly.  See <http://bugs.debian.org/245322>.