On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Andreas Voegele wrote: > > > It seems that I'll have to convert GNUstep's hard links into symbolic > > links since dpkg cannot handle long names; cf. bug #128388: dpkg has > > possible bug with handling of gnu longlink/longname. > > Oh, I know what this is. > > dpkg's tar handling with long names is buggy. It can only one of either a > long name, or a long symlink target, where long is > 100 chars. There is a > bug in the gnu long name/link support handling. > > Converting your deb to symlinks won't help in this case.
Actually, a work around would be to store the file in the deb, with 0 bytes, and in your postinst, recreate it as a hard-link.
