Vladimir Nadvornik wrote:
> On pondělí 03 září 2007, Adrian Schröter wrote:
>> On Sunday 02 September 2007 18:00:21 wrote Marcus Rueckert:
>>> On 2007-09-02 16:22:58 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote:
>>>> Am Friday 24 August 2007 schrieb Vladimir Nadvornik:
>>>>> On středa 16 květen 2007, Stephan Kulow wrote:
>>>>> Do you think that the %fdupes macro should be changed to do this
>>>>> automatically?
>>>> I think it would be logical to make this automatic.
>>> and it would be still broken. you can not assume that hardlinks between
>>> different directories will _always_ work. the only place where you can
>>> say "it wont break anything" are hardlinks in the same directory.
>>> anything else can be on a different partition. that said i think the
>>> best would be to patch fdupes and let it use hardlinks for any
>>> duplicates in the same directory, but symlinks for anything else.
> 
> IMHO the best approach is to identify hardlinks between directories with
> rpmlint and let the maintainer decide whether they are dangerous or not.

Or patch rpm to check whether hardlinks are not created across different
partitions/volumes?

Best regards
        Petr
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