On Jan 21, 2014, at 9:49 PM, Rajul Bhavsar <rajulbhav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <n3...@me.com> wrote: > > >>> If hard-links are treated as just another files (for inclusion in .rpm) > >>> then why difference in size of payload - when same file is duplicated and > >>> hard-linked? Read about cpio headers: there needs to be some way to specify what foe path to link to, a search across a file system for a specific inode is quite performance intensive, so the path to the file to be linked to is included in the cpio payload. > > You can see all metadata with > rpm -qp —yaml somepackage.rpm > There is also —xml if you prefer the eye-scratchy angle bracket syntax. > Or compare the metadata with and without the hardline using —yaml. All the metadata is displayed with —yaml. You asked to understand why the *.rpm package was larger. One (or both) of the above answers should provide an answer to you. 73 de Jeff
