On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:32:51PM -0400, Andrew Schretter wrote: > Or, more commonly, if the files are not on the same filesystem... (NFS, > etc...) Well, yes, but then you can't even MAKE the link. That's not exactly a problem that yum would have with them. Upon rereading my previous post, I do see that I was unclear about that, though. -Michael > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
