On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:05:53PM -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 17:21 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:44:17PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > 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. > > Or if you build kernel modules against multiple kernel VR's. > > > > There is a /etc/sysconfig/kernel, how about dropping a "HARDLINK=yes/no" > > > there? > > > > It would mean adding parsing to the kernel spec file, which I'm not entirely > > enthusiastic about, especially for something that isn't the common case. > > %post > [ -f /etc/sysconfig/kernel ] && . /etc/sysconfig/kernel > if [ "$HARDLINK" != "no" -a -x /usr/sbin/hardlink ] ; then > pushd /usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.1823_FC4-i686 > /dev/null > /usr/bin/find . -type f | while read f; do hardlink > -c /usr/src/kernels/*FC*/$f $f ; done > popd > /dev/null > fi Removing the Prereq: /usr/sbin/hardlink from the spec (which I just did in CVS) should have the effect that you can now rpm -e hardlink, and it'll do what you want, whilst leaving it enabled for users by default. Dave -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
