Bug 168267 – ecompressdir fail with hard links

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) 2007-02-24 22:18:21 UTC]

>>> Completed installing heimdal-0.7.2-r3 into /var/tmp/portage/app-crypt/heimdal-0.7.2-r3/image/

ecompressdir: bzip2 -9 /usr/share/man/man1
bzip2: Input file /var/tmp/portage/app-crypt/heimdal-0.7.2-r3/image//usr/share/man/man1/kinit.1 has 1 other link.
bzip2: Input file /var/tmp/portage/app-crypt/heimdal-0.7.2-r3/image//usr/share/man/man1/kauth.1 has 1 other link.
ecompressdir: bzip2 -9 /usr/share/man/man3
bzip2: Input file /var/tmp/portage/app-crypt/heimdal-0.7.2-r3/image//usr/share/man/man3/getarg.3 has 1 other link.

As shown, ecompressdir with bzip2 doesn't handle directories in which contains hardlinks.

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2007-02-27 00:10:04 UTC]

If we don't consider this a bug in the ebuild for creating the hardlinks in the first place, I think we should simply use bzip2's --force option to break the hardlinks.  Anything else seems little more than extra complication with questionable gain.

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2007-02-27 05:06:39 UTC]

In svn r6089 I've added --force to the default PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS so that hardlinks are automatically broken.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2007-02-27 07:41:07 UTC]

This has been released in 2.1.2-r12.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2007-02-27 14:57:50 UTC]

thanks, i think this is the correct fix too ... people should be using softlinks, not hardlinks ...