#13601: MacPorts doesn't respect hard links during install phase --------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: julien.thewys@gmail.com | Owner: macports-tickets@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: git-core | --------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment(by blb@macports.org): Replying to [comment:4 ryandesign@…]:

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.

It can with inode detection (I think that'd be the simplest way). Something using [file stat...] to detect when a file has more than one link, then organizing those which are the same to keep the hard links.

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

Perhaps, or maybe they have a reason for using hard instead of symlinks. Also, this could come up again. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/13601#comment:7> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS