Package mkimage-preinstall: Information

This package contains settings allowing mkimage to operate
as intended -- it relies on hardlinks to non-owned files to
spare space for copies within and outside chroots as well as
to save time and CPU cycles on actually performing those;
either free RAM, SSD wearing or HDD bandwidth are to be
spent with care too).

Please note that this subpackage disables an otherwise reasonable
security feature that's there for a reason but is almost completely
incompatible with important part of mkimage's design and security
model.  Changes take place upon the installation of this package
and are made persistent by a configuration file held within it.

Remove mkimage-preinstall subpackage and run this to re-enable:

  echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks

(this will break mkimage though)

Package mkimage-preinstall: Information

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