On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 17:49 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> Why are hardlinks chosen over symlinks here?
Short answer:
Think what happens when you delete a package.
Longer answer:
install kernel-1.0-1 - modules are just put into /lib/mod...
install kernel-1.0-2 - modules added, then converted to symlinks
[now rpm -Vv fails because there are symlinks, not files]
remove kernel-1.0-1
now kernel-1.0-2 has dangling symlinks
(oh, and you can't boot either)
Nigel.
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