Hi,

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Marcus Rueckert wrote:

> > > it fails horribly. taking into account the comment from bwalle about 
> > > different meanings of files in different subdirectories, i think the 
> > > only valid thing is that fdupes should only hardlink files in the 
> > > same directory.
> > 
> > Fix rpm.  _That's_ the only valid thing.  If not possible for 10.3, 
> > make %fdupes a noop for now.
> 
> as mls mentioned offline that none of the tools is handling that case 
> nicely.

Invalid reasoning.  There needs to be just one tool handling it correctly, 
namely rpm, perhaps cpio.  If other programs don't handle this correctly 
doesn't matter for installation of rpms.

> rsync fails with that too for example. and he declined to fix that in 
> rpm.

Not sure what rsync has to do with the problem at hand.


Ciao,
Michael.
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