Make hardlinking kernel-devel optional
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Feb 1 18:03:35 UTC 2006
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 12:23:42PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:53 +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > Peter Jones wrote :
> >
> > > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 19:25 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > >
> > > > Removing the Prereq: /usr/sbin/hardlink from the spec (which I just did in CVS)
> > > > should have the effect that you can now rpm -e hardlink, and it'll
> > > > do what you want, whilst leaving it enabled for users by default.
> > >
> > > Yeah, but that sucks, because I want hardlink for things that *really*
> > > take lots of space.
> > >
> > > (like, you know, mirroring rawhide for 2 or 3 days)
> >
> > Install hardlink++ ... it's even faster! :-)
>
> You're not wrong, but this suggestion is ignoring the point.
>
> The point was that having the kernel's %post decide you do or don't want
> something based on if an unrelated package is installed isn't a good
> plan at all.
so now you can leave it installed, and put HARDLINK="no" in your /etc/sysconfig/kernel
Dave
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