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pacman -Syu results: "inodes match" [solved]

What does "inodes match" mean?

Targets: alsa-utils-1.0.9-3 bmp-0.9.7-3 libgphoto2-2.1.6-1 man-pages-2.07-1 mysql-4.1.13-1 speex-1.1.10-1 subversion-1.2.1-1 zlib-1.2.3-1

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checking for file conflicts... inodes match: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux-thread-multi/SVN/Base.pm and /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/SVN/Base.pm
inodes match: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux-thread-multi/SVN/Client.pm and /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/SVN/Client.pm
inodes match: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux-thread-multi/SVN/Core.pm and /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/SVN/Core.pm
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Thanks, Dusty.  I searched the forum and couldn't find one reference to this.

Dusty

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Re: pacman -Syu results: "inodes match" [solved]

Its debug output that Judd forgot to disable when he released pacman. Don't worry about it.

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Re: pacman -Syu results: "inodes match" [solved]

What does "inodes match" mean?

Targets: alsa-utils-1.0.9-3 bmp-0.9.7-3 libgphoto2-2.1.6-1 man-pages-2.07-1 mysql-4.1.13-1 speex-1.1.10-1 subversion-1.2.1-1 zlib-1.2.3-1

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checking for file conflicts... inodes match: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux-thread-multi/SVN/Base.pm and /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/SVN/Base.pm
inodes match: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux-thread-multi/SVN/Client.pm and /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/SVN/Client.pm
inodes match: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux-thread-multi/SVN/Core.pm and /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/SVN/Core.pm
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Thanks, Dusty.  I searched the forum and couldn't find one reference to this.

it means that inodes of filenames are identical, hence they are symlinks or hardlinks. In perl this happens due to the the fact that all /usr/lib/perl5/version dirs are symlinked to /usr/lib/perl5/current dir.

-neri