Re: Is --enable-single-binary=symlinks a problem for a distribution?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 27/08/2020 09:18, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 2020-08-27 10:11, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 27, 2020 1:53:56 AM CEST Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > > For Fedora I created a coreutils-single package variant
> > > (from the same source rpm), that one could install
> > > in places where space was a consideration
> > > (like embedded or container images etc.).
> > > Since space is the main consideration, I also configured
> > > --without-openssl --without-gmp for that package variant.
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > Pádraig
> >
> > Worth to say that we do not use the `=symlinks` argument in Fedora,
> > so it defaults to `--enable-single-binary=shebangs`.
>
> Using symlinks should be okay, and maybe even slightly faster,
> because the system doesn't have to read and evaluate the shebang.
>
> AFAIR the shebang variant is for file system types which do not fully
> support symlinks, right?

It was also to support multiple levels of symlinks.
For example to stub out commands like: ln -nsf false /bin/install
If using symlinks 'install' would remain in argv[0] and thus be invoked.

cheers,
Pádraig