-
-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 358
New issue
Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.
By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.
Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account
makeself adds hard links to the archive #214
Comments
What is the desired behavior, that files with more than one hard link are excluded while empty directories are included? |
@realtime-neil I don't know, what the desired behavior of the commit was. My desired behavior is, that makeself behaves similar to a normal tar archive, just adding the option to run an install script. (and some other nice things). And makeself did so before that commit. |
@jjvbsag Okay, let's get into the weeds here and consult some documentation.
Can you be specific with regard to what you consider "normal" vis-a-vis the |
Whoops, nevermind, I see what you mean --- that's weird. |
Ok, I tested a bit more and found, using The only thing, I cannot verify is, if |
I don't see it in the list of options for the BSD version at least. It might be a GNU thing. |
This would be closed by #223 |
To reproduce I created a short shell script
Output of list command is
I believe, this was introduces by commit
e242ff1
If I drop the
-o -links 2
by addingperl -pi -e s'/-o -links 2//;' makeself-master/makeself.sh
to above script after the extract section, the archive is fine
My System information:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: