Disable symlinks usage in shrink_archive function (#6291)

* Disable symlinks usage in shrink_archive function

* bump version

bin/crew

@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ def prepare_package(destdir)
 
     strip_dir destdir
 
-    # make hard linked files symlinks and use upx on executables
+    # use upx on executables
     shrink_dir destdir
   end
 end
@@ -1002,10 +1002,6 @@ def shrink_dir(dir)
         puts "Using rdfind to find duplicate or hard linked files."
         system "#{CREW_PREFIX}/bin/rdfind -removeidentinode true -makesymlinks true -makeresultsfile false ."
       end
-      if File.exist?("#{CREW_PREFIX}/bin/symlinks")
-        puts "Using symlinks tool to make absolute symlinks relative"
-        system 'symlinks -cr .' if File.exist?("#{CREW_PREFIX}/bin/symlinks")
-      end
       # Issues with non-x86_64 in compressing libraries, so just compress
       # non-libraries. Also note that one needs to use "upx -d" on a
       # compressed file to use ldd.

lib/const.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Defines common constants used in different parts of crew
 
-CREW_VERSION = '1.16.9'
+CREW_VERSION = '1.17.0'
 
 ARCH_ACTUAL = `uname -m`.strip
 # This helps with virtualized builds on aarch64 machines