[Yum] RPM directory of links

[Michael Stenner]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:00:55PM -0700, Ian Masterson wrote:
> Hardlinks work just fine, although being able to use symlinks instead 
> would be very nice.

In fact, hard links _HAVE_ to work, since there is no distinction
between original and link.

The only scenario I can think of where hard links don't work but
symlinks do is if a program removes a file and creates a new file of
the same name (intending to replace the original).

					-Michael
> 
> -Ian
> 
> On 20 Aug 2002, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 14:51, Andrew Schretter wrote:
> > > Seth,
> > >    You mentioned that I could use a directory containing links to RPMS
> > > and run yum-arch on it to create the header info for that directory.
> > > 
> > > However, when I tried it, I got :
> > > 
> > > No rpms to look at. Exiting.
> > > 
> > > The same yum-arch works fine on the directory actually containing all
> > > the RPMS.  I was just testing to see if I could create a subset of those
> > > RPMS in another directory via links.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > whoops - misremembered:
> > 
> > from serverStuff.py getfilelist()
> > 
> > # get all the files matching the 3 letter extension that is ext in path,
> > recursively
> > # store them in append them to list
> > # return list
> > # ignore symlinks
> > 
> > yah - and I think I remember why - b/c the path might be outside of that
> > basedir - and the basedir is needed to reach the files if symlink
> > following is not supported in the http or ftp server.
> > 
> > 
> > a problem worth looking into a bit more. If you make them hardlinks what
> > happens?
> > 
> > -sv
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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