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SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 26, 2010 18:20 UTC (Sat) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure by vonbrand
Parent article: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

It works for rpm when all those shared fiels are identical in every package.

But what you want to do here is that rpm will be able to merge files from different packages into a single file on disk. This won't work.


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SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 26, 2010 21:49 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

and fat binaries won't work in cases where you need different config file options for different architectures and the config file is on a shared drive

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