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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 23:22:31 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>,
	Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>,
	Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Package system flaws?
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Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Dan Nelson writes:
> > > tar has a limitation which I've encountered: suppose you have a port
> > > that installs a man page with lots of references (i.e., hard linked
> > > files with different names with a single underlying file). Then in
> > > tar format, you get the same file copied N times. If we used cpio
> > > instead (for example) then it "knows" how to handle hard links.
> >
> > Tar handles hardlinks just fine.
> 
> Oops, you're right... don't know how I got that idea in my head.
> OK me shut up now :-)

It's a GNU tar thing; real tar acts the way you say, and also has
problems with holey files, etc..  We used to use cpio for nearly
everything back in the old days at Century Software (mid-late 80's).

-- Terry

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