On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:03:46PM +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote: > I have some packages (j2re1.3, libc6) they contain hardlinks in the > tarfile. But afs doesn't support hardlinks accross directories. So > installation of these packages fails. What can I do? > > My only idea is, to install the package by hand in a normal directory and > copy the files into the afs. > > dpkg --fsys-tarfile package.deb | tar x > > But how can I set the state of the package to installed? > > Or what is a better choise?
Fixing AFS. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK

