On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 12:53 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > After drinking yet another half a dozen cups of tea while waiting for both > kernel-devel and kernel-devel-smp to install, I have an idea how to fix this > mess: > > 1) Add one more file to kernel-devel and kernel-devel-smp packages, whose > contents are the output of: > > cd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/src/kernels/<<version>> > find . -type f -print | sort | xargs md5sum >../<<version>>.md5sum > > 2) %post would then simply read all .md5sum files, reconcile them, and know > exactly what to hard link. > > I'd be surprised if this will not speed things up by at least a factor of > 10. another one would be to make a kernel-devel-base, which works for all versions, and which just has filenames that are the md5sums of all the headers. The kernel-devel package would then only contain symlinks to the md5sum filenames ;) (yes it's a hack, and yes it's grossly horrible :) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list