RPM needs to go on a diet.

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Thu Feb 17 16:49:50 UTC 2005


tor, 17.02.2005 kl. 04.47 skrev Jeff Johnson:
> Kenneth Porter wrote:
> 
> > --On Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:27 PM +0200 Panu Matilainen 
> > <pmatilai at welho.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The kernel package runs hardlink on /lib/modules/*/build/ in %post to
> >> save space on FC2 and FC3, that's what's taking so long when installing
> >> and removing kernels.
> >
> >
> > What does hardlink do? There appears to be no man page or other 
> > documentation for it in kernel-utils.
> 
> 
> Hardlinks's identical files to save space.

Why are hardlinks chosen over symlinks here?




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