I am doing a dpkg -i sampletools_01.01.01.deb that installs the package on /opt which happens to be a vfat filesystem. Since vfat filesystem doesn't allow creating links dpkg -i fails with below errors:
dpkg -i /tmp/sampletools_01.01.01.deb
(Reading database ... 37114 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../sampletools_01.01.01.deb ...
Unpacking sampletools (01.01.01) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/sampletools_01.01.01.deb (--install):
unable to make backup link of `./opt/a.txt' before installing new version: Operation not permitted
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
Any option I could use to tell dpkg to create backup links on some other folders?
-AN
