On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 12:13:38AM +0100, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > I't like to request to make the hardlink stage kernel-devel does on every > > > install optional. It takes a damn lot of time on my not-too-fast machines, > > > I do not exactly care about the saved disk space, and given the rate of > > > kernel changes in rawhide there are a lot of wasted CPU cycles there. > > > > only if you have a huge number of kernels installed, which shouldn't be the case. > > The only gain for hardlinks *is* when you have a lot of kernels installed. it's a space gain as soon as you've >1 installed. > Also, > I don't think yum uninstalls any kernels it does with rawhide kernels. seen installonlyn plugin. > , so a machine which is updated reguarly > can end up with a lot of kernels. Especially if smp and up kernels are present. rawhide only installs the one thats needed. > But my problem i guess is mostly in that I've had a few incompletele kernel > trees and couldn't compile from them anymore. Are you trying to compile a kernel from a kernel-devel tree ? That won't work, nor should it. That's why there's a .src.rpm > The process is terribly slow on older hardware though. > > I would happy if the kernel rpms checked for the hardlinks rpm and skipped it > when the rpm isnt installed. It does. However we have a Prereq: /usr/sbin/hardlink in the spec too. I'll nuke that, and it'll then allow you to rpm -e hardlink, and things should make everyone happy. Dave -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
