On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:11:39AM -0500, ml2news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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?
intended. It hardlinks all files that are identical to one copy.
This saves a *lot* of diskspace, especially when you have several
kernels installed.
Dave
