235642 – portage fails to merge hardlinks as hardlinks

Bug 235642 - portage fails to merge hardlinks as hardlinks

Summary: portage fails to merge hardlinks as hardlinks

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Keywords:	InVCS

Duplicates (1):	247922 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:	210077 216231
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Reported:	2008-08-25 01:07 UTC by Robin Johnson
Modified:	2008-11-27 04:12 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Robin Johnson archtester

2008-08-25 01:07:21 UTC

Maybe a known bug, but I couldn't find anything else in the tree for it.
When the install phase creates hardlinks and the package have preserves them into the tarball correctly, the qmerge phase does not seem to preserve them when copying onto the filesystem.

dev-util/git shows it up for /usr/bin/git-* (in 1.5) or /usr/libexec/git-core/git-* (in 1.6).

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2008-08-25 02:44:31 UTC

It will work just fine if $PORTAGE_TMPDIR is on the the same file system as $ROOT. Otherwise, yes, it's a known issue that needs fixing.

Comment 2 Robin Johnson archtester

2008-08-25 03:00:03 UTC

Yeah, I have $PORTAGE_TMPDIR as tmpfs.

For dev-util/git, this hardlink bug costs 70MiB of disk. I'm going to look and see if I can convert the package to symlinks instead for now.

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2008-11-26 20:35:47 UTC

*** Bug 247922 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2008-11-27 04:12:47 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.6_rc2.