[hardening-discuss] Bug#615262: error creating hard link `./usr/bin/ld': No such file or directory

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi,

Peter Palfrader wrote:

> While trying to upgrade binutils on ia64 (merulo) in the sid chroot:
>
> | Preparing to replace binutils 2.20.1-16 (using .../binutils_2.21.0.20110216-2_ia64.deb) ...
> | Unpacking replacement binutils ...
> | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/binutils_2.21.0.20110216-2_ia64.deb (--unpack):
> |  error creating hard link `./usr/bin/ld': No such file or directory

This looks related to <http://bugs.debian.org/245322>.  One way to
solve it might be to pre-depend on a version of dpkg with that fixed
(only if the consensus on debian-devel is that that such a
pre-dependency is worth it, of course).

Thanks for reporting and hope that helps.
Jonathan