On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 06:40:57PM -0700, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> >*grumble* Hmm... I suspect this is really a Setup issue. The binary
> >is stored in the tar as a hardlink to the versioned name. If you
> >manually unpack it, with tar, it does the right thing. On an NTFS
> >volume, it makes it a hardlink to the real file (ie: link count = 2).
> >On a FAT volume, it duplicates the file's contents (ie: link count =
> >1). It appears setup isn't quite handling it correctly for your
> >configuration. We'd have to get detailed info about your config. Are
> >you using the latest setup.exe, btw? If not, try a snap-shot first.
> >It's as simple a un-installing and re-install zsh to test.
>
> Again, setup.exe does not understand hard links. So if you use a hard
> link in your tar file, you will not get a hard link when setup.exe
> installs it.
I know you've said that, but, that doesn't account for what I see when I
install zsh, via setup. It does duplicate the file:
E:\cygwin\bin>ls -al zs*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ Administ 6656 Apr 3 23:12 zsh-4.2.0.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ Administ 6656 Apr 7 19:41 zsh.exe
This is from a freshly installed zsh after I de-installed and manually
removed all traces for zsh from the system. No, I haven't looked into
how setup is doing this, and no, I can't explain why it works for me, but
not zapper. I'm hoping getting some info from zzapper's test will shed
light on the subject.
> cgf
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