Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
?-) Do you know what's AFS? AFS couldn't support hardlinks across directories, because it only have ACLs for directories. I think I found a way: dpkg calls /bin/tar to extract the tar archive of the debian package. So if a replace /bin/tar with a script, that calls star -symlink, I can unpack the package the same way like in a normal fs. But this script couldn't only call star, because star doesn't accept the same parameters like tar. star whants -x -f instead of xf. And you couldn't determine correctly, how calls the faked /bin/tar. Is there a way to tell dpkg a tar command? So I can tell dpkg star with -symlink as the tar command. And calls dpkg tar for something else? Joerg.
