Rationale for hardlink in kernel postinstall scriplet

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	Hello,

I've got a question for the kernel rpm packager at RedHat (Dave?). What's
the idea behind this piece of code (postinstall scriptlet):

if [ -x /usr/sbin/hardlink ] ; then
pushd /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.741_FC3/build > /dev/null ; {
        cd /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.741_FC3/build
        find . -type f | while read f; do hardlink -c /lib/modules/*/build/$f $f ; done
}
popd > /dev/null
fi

The issue I've got with it is that it touches all /lib/modules/* thus
touching my own version of the kernel (happily changing files and
owner)...

Is this intended or just a bug?

Thanks for letting me know.

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