Hi, Is it normal and expected for rpm to be hard linking, presumably identical, files between independent packages? It might be a natural occurrence because of the PartialHardlinkSets support added to rpm 4.0.4. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch-rpm-evolution.html Most of the Makefiles between the 2 different kernel-devel packages are hard linked together like this: [mike@rockover ~]$ ls -li /usr/src/kernels/*/arch/alpha/boot/Makefile 9457971 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 3581 2008-08-04 19:17 /usr/src/kernels/2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686/arch/alpha/boot/Makefile 9457971 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 3581 2008-08-04 19:17 /usr/src/kernels/2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686/arch/alpha/boot/Makefile [mike@rockover ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/src/kernels/*/arch/alpha/boot/Makefile kernel-devel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 kernel-devel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 [mike@rockover ~]$ find /usr/src/kernels/2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686/ -name Makefile -print | xargs ls -l | awk '{ln[$2]=ln[$2]+1} END{for (i in ln) print i, ln[i]}' 1 247 2 774 Thanks, Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
