Description of problem: The hardlink done by the postinstall scriptlet of kernel-devel is not needed if only one kernel-devel is installed. That's certainly the case during OS installation, and the hardlink is just a waste of time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-devel-3.1.0-0.rc3.git0.0.fc16.i686 and at least as far back as F14 core (kernel-devel-2.6.35.6-45.fc14). How reproducible: Always, if these conditions are met: hardlink is installed before kernel-devel Only one kernel-devel is installed HARDLINK is not disabled (i.e., != no) in /etc/sysconfig/kernel Steps to Reproduce: Examine `rpm -q --scripts kernel-devel`: If there's only one /usr/src/kernels/*.fc*.*, the two args to hardlink are the same file: hardlink -c /usr/src/kernels/*.fc*.*/$f $f Additional info: A fix that uses sh only is to prepend the find...while code with a count and test of /usr/src/kernels/*.fc*.* matches. In kernel.spec this would be: (cd /usr/src/kernels/%{KVERREL}%{?1:.%{1}} &&\ set /usr/src/kernels/*.fc*.* && [ $# -gt 1 ] &&\ ### <<< added line /usr/bin/find . -type f | while read f; do\ hardlink -c /usr/src/kernels/*.fc*.*/$f $f\ done)\
Really, hardlink should probably just exit if it is passed two identical arguments. Let's reassign to hardlink for now.
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