Re: RH rpms, and installing using hardlinks vs symlinks

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On 6 March 2018 at 14:34, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   i'm curious about RH packaging policy that dictates that some
> command variants are packaged for fedora to install with symlinks
> and others with hardlinks.
>
>   trivial example in /usr/bin on my fedora 27 system:
>
>   -rwsr-xr-x.   1 root root        52984 Aug  2  2017 at
>   lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root root            2 Aug  2  2017 atq -> at
>   lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root root            2 Aug  2  2017 atrm -> at
>
> so even though all of those "commands" are in the very same directory,
> atq and atrm are supported via symlinks, not hardlinks.

I am not an expert, some commands act differently when called
differently; so executing /bin/atq would make the 'at' binary behave
differently than when it's executed as plain 'at'.

The same logic applies to bash, /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash, but
when bash is invoked as sh it acts differently than when invoked as
'bash'. Have a look at the bash manual page for more info.

-- 
Ahmad Samir
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