Re: [PATCH 03/10] hardlink: add new recipe

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 2/25/16 3:40 PM, Joshua G Lock wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 11:13 -0600, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> I just noticed this, any reason to use this over fdupes?
> 
> No reason other than that hardlink is what the Clear Linux team, who
> authored swupd, are using. Is there a compelling reason to look at
> fdupes instead?

I'd used fdupes since someone else had already integrated it.  (meta-tizen
maybe?)  Also because it could do more then just setup duplicates as hardlinks.
 It can also simply display the duplicates for external processing.

I don't have any reason to prefer one over the other...

--Mark


> Thanks,
> 
> Joshua
> 
>>
>> I've used fdupes in the past for this exact thing -- primarily with
>> shrinking
>> the size of multilib SDKs with a lot of locales.
>>
>> --Mark
>>
>> On 2/24/16 8:52 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
>>>
>>> ---
>>>  meta/recipes-extended/hardlink/hardlink_0.3.0.bb | 19
>>> +++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>>>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-
>>> extended/hardlink/hardlink_0.3.0.bb
>>>
>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/hardlink/hardlink_0.3.0.bb
>>> b/meta/recipes-extended/hardlink/hardlink_0.3.0.bb
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..2e06ac2
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/hardlink/hardlink_0.3.0.bb
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
>>> +SUMMARY = "hardlink is a tool which replaces multiple copies of a
>>> file with hardlinks."
>>> +LICENSE = "MIT"
>>> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
>>> "file://hardlink.c;endline=22;md5=168464a4fc92fa7389c53b0755b39fbb"
>>> +
>>> +SRC_URI = "http://jak-linux.org/projects/hardlink/${BPN}_${PV}.tar
>>> .xz"
>>> +SRC_URI[md5sum] = "72f1a460adb6874c151deab766e434ad"
>>> +SRC_URI[sha256sum] =
>>> "e8c93dfcb24aeb44a75281ed73757cb862cc63b225d565db1c270af9dbb7300f"
>>> +
>>> +DEPENDS = "libpcre attr"
>>> +
>>> +do_compile () {
>>> +	oe_runmake 'DESTDIR=${D}' 'PREFIX=${prefix}'
>>> BINDIR='${bindir}'
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +do_install () {
>>> +	oe_runmake install 'DESTDIR=${D}' 'PREFIX=${prefix}'
>>> BINDIR='${bindir}'
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
>>>