Linux standalone: Avoid using hard links in the tarball so it can be untarred on eg, afs which does not support them.

Build/LinuxMkLibs.hs

@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ main = getArgs >>= go
 mklibs :: FilePath -> IO ()
 mklibs top = do
 	fs <- dirContentsRecursive top
-	mapM_ symToHardLink fs
 	exes <- filterM checkExe fs
 	libs <- parseLdd <$> readProcess "ldd" exes
 	glibclibs <- glibcLibs
@@ -63,7 +62,18 @@ installLinkerShim :: FilePath -> FilePath -> FilePath -> IO ()
 installLinkerShim top linker exe = do
 	createDirectoryIfMissing True (top </> shimdir)
 	createDirectoryIfMissing True (top </> exedir)
-	renameFile exe exedest
+	ifM (isSymbolicLink <$> getSymbolicLinkStatus exe)
+		( do
+			sl <- readSymbolicLink exe
+			nukeFile exe
+			nukeFile exedest
+			-- Assume that for a symlink, the destination
+			-- will also be shimmed.
+			let sl' = ".." </> takeFileName sl </> takeFileName sl
+			print (sl', exedest)
+			createSymbolicLink sl' exedest
+		, renameFile exe exedest
+		)
 	link <- relPathDirToFile (top </> exedir) (top ++ linker)
 	unlessM (doesFileExist (top </> exelink)) $
 		createSymbolicLink link (top </> exelink)
@@ -81,15 +91,6 @@ installLinkerShim top linker exe = do
 	exedest = top </> shimdir </> base
 	exelink = exedir </> base
 
-{- Converting symlinks to hard links simplifies the binary shimming
- - process. -}
-symToHardLink :: FilePath -> IO ()
-symToHardLink f = whenM (isSymbolicLink <$> getSymbolicLinkStatus f) $ do
-	l <- readSymbolicLink f
-	let absl = absPathFrom (parentDir f) l
-	nukeFile f
-	createLink absl f
-
 installFile :: FilePath -> FilePath -> IO ()
 installFile top f = do
 	createDirectoryIfMissing True destdir
@@ -101,7 +102,7 @@ checkExe :: FilePath -> IO Bool
 checkExe f
 	| ".so" `isSuffixOf` f = return False
 	| otherwise = ifM (isExecutable . fileMode <$> getFileStatus f)
-		( checkFileExe <$> readProcess "file" [f]
+		( checkFileExe <$> readProcess "file" ["-L", f]
 		, return False
 		)
 

CHANGELOG

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ git-annex (6.20161032) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * webapp: Explicitly avoid checking for auth in static subsite
     requests. Yesod didn't used to do auth checks for that, but this may
     have changed.
+  * Linux standalone: Avoid using hard links in the tarball so it can be
+    untarred on eg, afs which does not support them.
 
  -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Tue, 01 Nov 2016 14:02:06 -0400
 

doc/bugs/cannot___34__install__34___standalone_git_annex_within_afs_mount.mdwn

@@ -20,3 +20,5 @@ ls: cannot access git-annex.linux/shimmed/git-pack-redundant/git-pack-redundant:
 """]]
 
 [[!meta author=yoh]]
+
+> [[done]] --[[Joey]]

doc/bugs/cannot___34__install__34___standalone_git_annex_within_afs_mount/comment_3_c200ccb58cf3e53dd162884e0568429e._comment

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 3"""
+ date="2016-11-10T18:21:35Z"
+ content="""
+Bloating the tarball with duplicates of all the hard linked stuff would
+increase its size by a large amount.
+
+The current machinery for building the standlone tarball only works when
+using hard links.
+
+Ok.. Complicated it by making it use symlinks.
+"""]]