[Spacewalk-list] Reducing disk space used by mrepo/spacewalk

[Michael Mraka]

Boyd, Robert wrote:
% Thank you Jeremy,
% 
% So - I'm guessing it's necessary to allow spacewalk-repo-sync to copy
% the files first and then run hardlink afterward?  Or can I pre-link
% the files to skip the copy step?   It would be nice if
% spacewalk-repo-sync can detect which files aren't in the database yet

Of course it does. So you can pre-fill /var/satellite with rpms, you just
have to create expected directory structure (which is fairly easy).

% and process them without having to copy them if they are already in
% the destination directory.  I suppose that might be too much to ask -
% but since I am new to it and haven't tried to read the code, I have no
% idea how it does the magic.
% 
% In the meantime I'm installing hardlink :)
% 
% Thank you!
% Robert


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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat