That's a bit odd.... The SRPMS directory within the various '6.#' directories is a symbolic link to 6x/SRPMS/ so it should be automatically detected by rsync as identical and treated as such.......
Pat ________________________________________ From: Mailing list for Scientific Linux users worldwide [[email protected]] on behalf of Kenneth MacDonald [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 12:10 PM To: scientific-linux-users Subject: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Hard links no longer maintained? 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.
