Package: coreutils Version: 8.5-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i lfs
This report concerning wheezy is being submitted on a squeeze host. Current situation in wheezy installer is to make /tmp default to ramfs. Coreutils sort uses /tmp for scratch files. Having 'sort' use only ram for scratch severly limits its usefulness in sorting files whose sizes are greater than ram size. Discussion gleened from reading developer discussion list by this non-developer indicate that some developers believe that Debian policy is to use /tmp for 'small' temporary files and /var/tmp for 'large' temporary files. Presuming this belief to be actual policy, the current coreutils package is not compliant with Debian policy. To me, it seems reasonable to change coreutils sort default to use /var/tmp in order to get out of the way of the ramfs 'improvement' in the installer. For me, it would allow me to avoid making changes to many little bash scripts that I have written that use coreutils sort on large files. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
