Hardlinks work just fine, although being able to use symlinks instead would be very nice. -Ian On 20 Aug 2002, seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 14:51, Andrew Schretter wrote: > > Seth, > > You mentioned that I could use a directory containing links to RPMS > > and run yum-arch on it to create the header info for that directory. > > > > However, when I tried it, I got : > > > > No rpms to look at. Exiting. > > > > The same yum-arch works fine on the directory actually containing all > > the RPMS. I was just testing to see if I could create a subset of those > > RPMS in another directory via links. > > > > > whoops - misremembered: > > from serverStuff.py getfilelist() > > # get all the files matching the 3 letter extension that is ext in path, > recursively > # store them in append them to list > # return list > # ignore symlinks > > yah - and I think I remember why - b/c the path might be outside of that > basedir - and the basedir is needed to reach the files if symlink > following is not supported in the http or ftp server. > > > a problem worth looking into a bit more. If you make them hardlinks what > happens? > > -sv > > > >
