Or, more commonly, if the files are not on the same filesystem... (NFS, etc...) Andrew On Aug 20,2002 15:29:18 -0400, Michael Stenner <mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote : >On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:00:55PM -0700, Ian Masterson wrote: >> Hardlinks work just fine, although being able to use symlinks instead >> would be very nice. > >In fact, hard links _HAVE_ to work, since there is no distinction >between original and link. > >The only scenario I can think of where hard links don't work but >symlinks do is if a program removes a file and creates a new file of >the same name (intending to replace the original). > > -Michael >> >> -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 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Yum mailing list >> Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > >-- > Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 > Duke University, Dept. of Physics mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305 >_______________________________________________ >Yum mailing list >Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > Andrew Schretter Systems Programmer, Duke University Dept. of Mathematics (919) 660-2866
