On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> If you go to ftp.rpmfind.net, then switch to linux/Mandrake/6.1, you
> find yourself facing two directories, the Mandrake directory that hold
> all of Mandrake rpms, etc. and the Red Hat directory that seems to hold
> all of Red Hat's rpms, etc. I notice that all of the "Red Hat" rpms in
> this Mandrake/6.1/RedHat directory are optimized 586 files. Could
> someone please explain to me what is the difference between the
> Mandrake/6.1/Red Hat 586 rpms and the Mandrake/6.1/Mandrake 586 rpms?
> What is Red Hat, optimized or not, doing in Mandrake, anyway?
That RedHat 'directory' is not its own directory, but actually just a symbolic
link to the Mandrake directory. So the rpms you see in Mandrake/RPMS and
RedHat/RPMS are exactly the same, because it's the same directory.
I suppose the next question is what the heck is the symlink there for. :) I
don't know, but I figure that, since Mandrake used RedHat's installation
program, it may have been easier to toss that symlink in there (since the
installation program would look for its RPMS in RedHat/RPMS) than to change the
installation program to look for Mandrake/RPMS. That's just a guess though,
and I would assume that by now Mandrake has modified the installation program
enough that they wouldn't need the symlink anymore.
-Tom
