Jakub Jelinek wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 04:58:11AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>> Now, if there were a clever way to handle this behind the scenes so that
>> these license files were not duplicated if they were identical, but
>> instead, symlinked to the license files in a generic license rpm, I
>> might be more interested. (If they weren't bit for bit identical, it
>> wouldn't be symlinked).
> /usr/sbin/hardlink -c /usr/share/doc
> is pretty close to what you want.
Yes, but if you have %license support in rpm where all %license files
would
1) not be excluded with --excludedocs
Right.
2) for rpm -V ignore timestamp verification
Timestamps are
irrelevant, because you want to merge files with
identical contents.
b) license-wise irrelevant - Contents matters, not timestamps.
c) Generally irrelevant in rpm.
Ralf