On Sep 24, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > On 24.09.2012 17:13, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: >> I am (mis-?)remembering a claim of using symlinks instead of copying file >> content >> with paths from packages that you claimed speeded up installs from a few >> years back. > you probably remember case when links were used at PACKAGE BUILDING time > > if that was the case, then there were used hardlinks instead of file copies > to transfer files from BUILD-dir to $RPM_BUILD_ROOT > > and it came up as discussion as when a symlink was hardlinked, weird > behaviour was found that the hardlinked symlinks appeared nowhere after > package install > > and symlinks were hardlinked because the hardlinking procedure used cp -al > DIR where DIR contained symlinks >
Ah he's hard linked symlinks not handled correctly by rpm. Likely fixable now: at the time you reported, there was a re-release of a CVE about removing hardlinks on files during erasure which trumped your bug: the wiser course at the time seemed to be not to to disrupt the paranoid security types with too much info regarding hardlink -> symlink -> setuid/setgid so that the re-release of the CVE might deploy on schedule. 73 de Jeff > -- > glen > > _______________________________________________ > pld-devel-en mailing list > pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org > http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en