Duplicated files in the pristine FC4t2 installation

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Mon May 2 19:19:10 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 14:52 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hmm,
> 
> Lots of pyo pyc duplicates, this should be somehow fixed in python can 
> RPM handle hardlinks iow can an rpm contain a file and hardlink to the 
> file instead of 2 copies of the file?
> 
> If rpm can handle hardlinks then this should be fixable preferrably 
> python should just create a hardlink when the pyc and pyo are the same.

You could make rpm run "hardlinks" on a directory, but the results are
pretty painful -- you wind up running it per-package, and that means
everything takes forever.

-- 
        Peter




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