Use soft links to dependencies instead of hard links

One thing I noticed when setting up a test Onionoo server was the use of hard links in build.xml. An improvement here would be to instead use the soft links created during installation. I don't imagine this would break anything since I'm using newer versions of many of those packages without any problems.

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added build.xml component::metrics/onionoo dependencies priority::medium reporter::leeroy resolution::not a bug status::closed type::enhancement labels

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Actually, we put in file names containing file names to be sure that we're using exactly these versions. I'm copying iwakeh who was involved in this decision.

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That's what I thought. The documentation made no mention of placing holds on package updates so I just gave it a try. I might have gotten lucky.

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0001-Use-soft-links-to-dependencies-instead-of-hard-links.patch

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I think the question that needs to be asked is, do you want to update the build file to reflect modern installs, or do you want to make it more generic? Either way build.xml needs to be updated. The patch tries to be more generic.

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Parent: N/A to #16424 (moved)

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Parent: #16424 (moved) to N/A

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0001-Use-soft-links-to-dependencies.patch

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0002-Use-soft-links-to-dependencies.patch

Now also include support for xz tarball archives.

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Parent removed, b/c it looks like a mistake.

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Closed,b/c the version strings for dependencies were deliberately included in #13088 (moved).

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closed

mentioned in issue #16424 (moved)