On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:41:02AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > Making kernel-devel packages share the base files from a core package > but just include their own build-specific headers and asm-offsets.h > would get rid of another 8M or so, too. More than that if we still have Alternatively there can be just one kernel-devel that provides all 4 and is hardlinked within the package. > the Xen kernel-devel packages in the tree. And would have the added > benefit of not requiring us to run hardlink in %post. Hardlink in %post is so that files can be shared accross different kernels, so would be still desirable. But perhaps something could be speeded up by not using a general hardlinking proglet, but instead a specialized one (in kernel*devel* one would expect mainly just files with the same relative name under the kernel specific subdir to be identical, so a specialized proglet can check just those; furthermore, it can only compare the newly added kernel with the current ones, doesn't have to compare the already installed kernel-devel's against each other). Jakub
