While experimenting with a local mirror over rsync, I notice that the
Scientific Linux doesn't seem to be maintaining hard links between
source RPMs anymore.

For example ...

6.4/SRPMS/vendor/at-3.1.10-44.el6_5.2.src.rpm
6.5/SRPMS/vendor/at-3.1.10-44.el6_5.2.src.rpm

However, the older files ...

6.4/SRPMS/vendor/at-3.1.10-42.el6.src.rpm
6.5/SRPMS/vendor/at-3.1.10-42.el6.src.rpm

... are hard linked.

In 6.[45]/SRPMS/vendor, the oldest non-hardlinked files are both ...

-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root     2254830 Oct 15  2012 tar-1.23-9.el6.src.rpm

But they have the same md5sum, so I would expect them to be hard linked.

Is this something that is already known?  Perhaps it's the upstream
vendor's change in behaviour?

Cheers,

Kenny.





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