While experimenting with a local mirror over rsync, I notice that the Scientific Linux doesn't seem to be maintaining hard links between source RPMs anymore.
For example ... 6.4/SRPMS/vendor/at-3.1.10-44.el6_5.2.src.rpm 6.5/SRPMS/vendor/at-3.1.10-44.el6_5.2.src.rpm However, the older files ... 6.4/SRPMS/vendor/at-3.1.10-42.el6.src.rpm 6.5/SRPMS/vendor/at-3.1.10-42.el6.src.rpm ... are hard linked. In 6.[45]/SRPMS/vendor, the oldest non-hardlinked files are both ... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2254830 Oct 15 2012 tar-1.23-9.el6.src.rpm But they have the same md5sum, so I would expect them to be hard linked. Is this something that is already known? Perhaps it's the upstream vendor's change in behaviour? Cheers, Kenny. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
