"JC" == Japheth Cleaver cleaver@terabithia.org writes:
JC> Would it be possible to convert some of the hardlinks to softlinks JC> at the generating source? That seems like it would help make this JC> process much easier for rsync users overall.
I think in general that would cause more issues than it would solve. For example, which of fedora and fedora-secondary is the "master" tree that gets the noarch RPMS? If I want to mirror just one, I'd have to figure out how to convert those symlinks back.
That said, if entire directory trees are expected to have the same content in the long term, then it does make much more sense for one to be a simple symlink. But that wouldn't cover the archive, so I think its utility would be limited.
- J<