Date/time stamps on files to help with hardlinking

[Villalovos, John L]

I was noticing that the files in the repository are not setup very well
for hardlinking.

This is because identical files do not have the exact same date/time
stamps.

For example:
13109840 Feb 21 09:29
7.2/updates/i386/kernel-2.4.20-30.7.legacy.i686.rpm
13109840 Feb 21 00:07
7.3/updates/i386/kernel-2.4.20-30.7.legacy.i686.rpm

These two files are identical but they have different time stamps.

The hardlink utility will only hardlink two files if they have the same
date/time stamp, size, and are identical.

Hardlink tool:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/mirror-tools/

This can be a big savings in hard disk space.

Is there any possibility of getting the files which are identical to
have the same date/time stamps on the repository?

Thanks,
John