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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20080721/a321d2be/attachment-0004.sig>