On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 05:36:08PM -0500, Mark W. Eichin wrote: > found it: > > % ls -ali /usr/bin/m68k-palmos-coff-nm /usr/m68k-palmos-coff/bin/nm > 174487 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 162652 Oct 19 15:25 > /usr/bin/m68k-palmos-coff-nm* > 174487 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 162652 Oct 19 15:25 > /usr/m68k-palmos-coff/bin/nm* > > I think it is reasonable for those to be hardlinked, but they should > end up copied if that isn't possible (I have /usr/m68k-palmos-coff off > on another partition...)
Perhaps this deserves a policy amendation. What do people think? Should we not allow hardlinks between different directories in order to allow for this, or should we make dpkg cope? Dan
