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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2016-11-10 15:12:08 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2016-11-10 15:12:30 -0400
commita992345dc5ecedc17093cca8f7a57256f4106476 (patch)
tree085ba1a78a8ca11d2af69f9edd9b6ef9c11a0f30 /doc
parenta2540dfad8e1c7b98ff96a6ba81ff9d2921344a3 (diff)
Linux standalone: Avoid using hard links in the tarball so it can be untarred on eg, afs which does not support them.
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-rw-r--r--doc/bugs/cannot___34__install__34___standalone_git_annex_within_afs_mount.mdwn2
-rw-r--r--doc/bugs/cannot___34__install__34___standalone_git_annex_within_afs_mount/comment_3_c200ccb58cf3e53dd162884e0568429e._comment13
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/cannot___34__install__34___standalone_git_annex_within_afs_mount.mdwn b/doc/bugs/cannot___34__install__34___standalone_git_annex_within_afs_mount.mdwn
index 443b3827b..32643a612 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/cannot___34__install__34___standalone_git_annex_within_afs_mount.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/cannot___34__install__34___standalone_git_annex_within_afs_mount.mdwn
@@ -20,3 +20,5 @@ ls: cannot access git-annex.linux/shimmed/git-pack-redundant/git-pack-redundant:
"""]]
[[!meta author=yoh]]
+
+> [[done]] --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/bugs/cannot___34__install__34___standalone_git_annex_within_afs_mount/comment_3_c200ccb58cf3e53dd162884e0568429e._comment b/doc/bugs/cannot___34__install__34___standalone_git_annex_within_afs_mount/comment_3_c200ccb58cf3e53dd162884e0568429e._comment
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0a53ac4d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/bugs/cannot___34__install__34___standalone_git_annex_within_afs_mount/comment_3_c200ccb58cf3e53dd162884e0568429e._comment
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 3"""
+ date="2016-11-10T18:21:35Z"
+ content="""
+Bloating the tarball with duplicates of all the hard linked stuff would
+increase its size by a large amount.
+
+The current machinery for building the standlone tarball only works when
+using hard links.
+
+Ok.. Complicated it by making it use symlinks.
+"""]]