[Bug 249374] ports-mgmt/pkg: 1.15.4 cannot unroll hard links to copies, and still runs pkg-install after error

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249374

--- Comment #3 from Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org> ---
After receiving an email message asking what the consequence of this was,
my workaround was changing the package structure and finally accepting that I
needed to copy the file.

In detail, I ended up breaking up the e2fsprogs port into 1. a new
e2fsprogs-core port and 2. the e2fsprogs port (the existing name) where the
-core port has the stuff without links, and has the former e2fsprogs-core port
as a build requisite and copies two files into /sbin and packages them
separately, as copies.  See
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/sysutils/e2fsprogs/Makefile?id=c7d90c65422d0b64ab00ece9237c2c4431d3ee23#n16

It isn't terribly efficient, but I could not find a better copromise that
ticked all of these priority boxes:

[ ] 1. not break on install when the filesystem split is different than for the
port
[ ] 2. not claim checksum errors if I do things in post-install scripts
[ ] 3. not create redundant copies.

I did not manage to fix no. 3 with the existing pkg, and do not see how I can
do that without assuming that there is no file system boundary between /sbin
and /usr/local/whatever.

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