On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:43:07PM -0800, Frank Cusack wrote: > What exactly is this rpmlib dependency for? My guess from a *quick* code > read is that it ensures that hardlinks can't get different file attributes. > If that's the case, I will be adding a patch to our local version to > allow disabling (cf. _noVersionedDependencies). We need to support > older versions of rpm which don't meet this dependency and I'd rather > have the hardlink than a copy of a file. > The internal rpmlib dependency (like all rpmlib dependencies) is there to associate a "new" feature with an rpmlib that has a prayer of being able to handle the necessary (yes, necessary) feature requirement. So the short answer for you is to get rid of all hardlinks in the package that has the PartialHardlinkSets dependency. An alternative answer is to upgrade to rpm-3.0.5 or later which (iirc, been years) has the necessary semantic for dealing with some, but not all, members of a hardlink set being installed. If rpm-3.0.5 does not have, there are many many many other and later versions of rpm that have been built for legacy uses like RHL 6.2 and earlier. HTH 73 de Jeff -- Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ jbj@xxxxxxxxxx (jbj@xxxxxxx) Chapel Hill, NC _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
