[CentOS-mirror] Yum 3.2.8-9 from msync-dvd.centos.org wrong?

Lauro, John wrote:
> I have had trouble getting yum to work on a box that was fairly behind
> on it's updates.  As a work around I ended up downloading several yum
> packages by hand, rpm -e the old ones and rpm -i the new ones.
> 
> I still don't see how they could have different checksums if they are
> hard linked.
>

agreed ... so their must be something wrong with the hardlink.py program 
...

i say this because, we only made ONE file (they were noarch files) ... 
they were copied to one place and hard linked into the other place.

then automated -avzH rsyncs were used to copy to other places

then hardlink.py was run against the repos ... and the x86_64 noarch 
files changed, but the i386 ones stayed the same.

i do not know how ... just that it did happen

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org
> [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of H. Peter
>> Anvin
>> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 7:28 PM
>> To: Mailing list for CentOS mirrors.
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] Yum 3.2.8-9 from msync-dvd.centos.org
> wrong?
>> Lauro, John wrote:
>>> 2 files linked together and 2 other files linked together instead
> of 4
>>> files linked together?
>> Then they're not hard-linked together, though.
>>
>> FWIW, we have gotten these bug reports from our users, too.

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