On Jan 21, 2014, at 9:49 PM, Rajul Bhavsar <rajulbhavsar@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <n3npq@me.com> wrote:
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> >>> 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.

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> You can see all metadata with
>         rpm -qp —yaml  somepackage.rpm
> There is also —xml if you prefer the eye-scratchy angle bracket syntax.
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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