How do I install awk into distroless? Do I make a symlink in my OCI image?

[blockjon-dd]

I'm trying to install awk and it seems like my options are to install gawk or mawk. When I use rules_oci to do that, the command awk is not found in the resulting image.

Do I need to create a symlink (awk->gawk)? If so, how do I create a symlink using rules_oci? Maybe there's another way to do this?

[blockjon-dd]

Answering my own question:

pkg_tar(
    name="mysymlink",
    symlinks = { "/usr/bin/awk": "/usr/bin/gawk"},
)

something like this seems to work.