On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 04:58:11AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >> Now, if there were a clever way to handle this behind the scenes so that >> these license files were not duplicated if they were identical, but >> instead, symlinked to the license files in a generic license rpm, I >> might be more interested. (If they weren't bit for bit identical, it >> wouldn't be symlinked). > > /usr/sbin/hardlink -c /usr/share/doc > is pretty close to what you want. Yes, but if you have %license support in rpm where all %license files would 1) not be excluded with --excludedocs 2) for rpm -V ignore timestamp verification rpm could just cheaply look up if there is already some %license file with identical {md5,sha{256,512}} sum and size installed and if so, do a byte by byte comparison and hardlink the files if they are indeed identical. Jakub -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list