[Mesa-dev] [Bug 83723] New: megadriver hardlinks problems

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83723

          Priority: low
            Bug ID: 83723
          Assignee: mesa-dev at lists.freedesktop.org
           Summary: megadriver hardlinks problems
          Severity: normal
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: All
          Reporter: fabio.ped at libero.it
          Hardware: All
            Status: NEW
           Version: git
         Component: Mesa core
           Product: Mesa

A couple of side effects for distribution packages since megadrivers and using
hardlinks:
1) hardlinks get copied as different files on packages, each one occupying the
same size, unless a trick is used to keep the hardlinks. In Debian and Ubuntu
the workaround is applied correctly
2) only one debug file is provided, ignoring the hardlinked files, see Debian
bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755921
Workaround is simple (manually create symlinks), but not used currently.

No idea if there is a better approach (symlinks rather than hardlinks?), just
writing here to document it, otherwise this can be closed.

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