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FS#29473 - "pacman -S zsh" will create 2 copies of zsh in /bin/

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by minijaws (minijaws) - Sunday, 15 April 2012, 17:51 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Sunday, 15 April 2012, 18:56 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
"pacman -S zsh" will create 2 copies of zsh in /bin/ taking up unnecessary space

Additional info:
* package version(s)
zsh 4.3.17-1
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
pacman -S zsh
ls -lh /bin/zsh*

results:
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 599K Feb 23 18:39 /bin/zsh
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 599K Feb 23 18:39 /bin/zsh-4.3.17

This task depends upon

Closed by  Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Sunday, 15 April 2012, 18:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Sunday, 15 April 2012, 18:03 GMT
If you'd look at the inodes, you'd see that these are hardlinks.

$ ls -li /bin/zsh*
1835058 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 692776 Feb 23 18:38 /bin/zsh
1835058 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 692776 Feb 23 18:38 /bin/zsh-4.3.17

There's no wasted space here.

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