[MacPorts] #13601: MacPorts doesn't respect hard links during install phase

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Mon Nov 10 17:10:23 PST 2008


#13601: MacPorts doesn't respect hard links during install phase
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  Reporter:  julien.thewys at gmail.com  |       Owner:  macports-tickets at lists.macosforge.org
      Type:  defect                   |      Status:  new                                  
  Priority:  Normal                   |   Milestone:  MacPorts base bugs                   
 Component:  base                     |     Version:  1.5.2                                
Resolution:                           |    Keywords:  tcl hard link                        
      Port:                           |  
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Comment(by ryandesign at macports.org):

 I thought that was the point of hard links -- that they are
 indistinguishable from real files. So there's no way for base to fix this.

 So isn't the fix for the for git-core to install those files as symlinks
 instead of hard links?

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/13601#comment:4>
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