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Add a method to write a link name without canonicalization
In https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree we generate a cryptographic checksum over files and symlinks, and directories. ostree does not currently perform any canonicalization on symlinks; we'll respect and honor whatever bytes we're provided as input, and replicate that on the target. I'm using this crate to do tar serialization, which has so far worked fine...except, I hit this corner case: ``` [root@cosa-devsh ~]# rpm -qf /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install chkconfig-1.13-2.el8.x86_64 [root@cosa-devsh ~]# ll /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install lrwxrwxrwx. 2 root root 24 Nov 29 18:08 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install -> ../../..//sbin/chkconfig [root@cosa-devsh ~]# ``` But, using `set_link_name` to write the tarball, we end up with the canonicalized path `../../../sbin/chkconfig` - i.e. without the double `//`. This breaks the checksum. Now, I am a bit tempted to change ostree to do canonicalization. But even if we did, I'd need to *exactly* match what this crate is doing. In the end, what I think is useful here is a method which skips the canonicalization and internal error checking and just writes out into the tar stream what's requested. (I may of course also try to change the rhel8 systemd package, but that's going to take a while to propagate and this corner case isn't the only one I'm sure)
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