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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