Rationale for hardlink in kernel postinstall scriplet

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First, thanks for getting back to me Dave.

davej at redhat.com (Dave Jones) writes:
> intended.  It hardlinks all files that are identical to one copy.
> This saves a *lot* of diskspace, especially when you have several
> kernels installed.

Ok so if this is the case, couldn't we run the following instead?
hardlink -c /lib/modules/*FC?/build/$f $f

IE anything that wouldn't overwrite my kernel tree (which isn't owned by
root), in this case matching for FC3. I guess we could be more specific
though or we could 'rpm -qf' directories under /lib/modules to only touch
these that are owned by kernel packages.

Any thoughts?

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