ext Raphael Hertzog writes:
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2011, Marius Vollmer wrote:
>> - Instead, we move all packages that are to be unpacked into
>> half-installed / reinstreq before touching the first one, and put a
>> big sync() right before carefully writing /var/lib/dpkg/sta
ext Chow Loong Jin writes:
> Could we somehow avoid using sync()? sync() syncs all mounted filesystems,
> which
> isn't exactly very friendly when you have a few slow-syncing filesystems like
> btrfs (or even NFS) mounted.
Hmm, right. We could keep a list of all files that need fsyncing, and
t
ext Chow Loong Jin writes:
> I remember seeing there being some list of files to be fsynced in one of the
> older dpkgs. It's probably that which led to the ext4 slowdown [...]
Hmm, performance is the ultimate reason for doing all this, but right
now, I am mostly interested in whether my changes
Hi,
I have recently been looking into where dpkg spends most of its time
when installing very many small packages, and came up with the following
idea to speed it up.
- Most of the time is spent writing files very carefully, a lot of them
in /var/lib/dpkg/updates.
- We can avoid this by writin
Hi,
here is some ghost spooking around in my head, and maybe you can help me
put it to rest.
The GNU build system makes a distinction between maintainers of a
source package and the people who eventually install it. Essentially,
GNU is producing a source distribution that is aiming for very high
Josselin Mouette writes:
> I’m considering asking for the removal of this snippet, since it is only
> useful for those having upgraded a pre-woody system all along. While I’m
> one of those doing that, I’m not sure there are as many people like
> that, and I guess they could live with some file l
Paul Wise writes:
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Michael Biebl wrote:
>
>> Afaik, Ubuntu is the only Linux distro which supports and uses tmpfs by
>> default.
>
> The OpenEmbedded distros do this too, I've especially seen that the
> ones associated with OpenMoko do that.
Maemo does it, too.
Rafael Laboissiere writes:
> Yes, the formulae are logically equivalent to each other. However, for
> some packages I would like to have (A B) | (C D), meaning ((A and B) or
> (C and D)). This does not seem to be doable with the current Depends
> syntax.
You just need to do the expansion one mo
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Marius Vollmer
* Package name: magit
Version : 0.7
Upstream Author : Marius Vollmer
* URL : http://zagadka.vm.bytemark.co.uk/magit/
* License : GPLv3, FDL
Programming Lang: Elisp
Description : A Emacs interface
Gregor Hoffleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Now I have no idea about guile and scm and slib: Should I file a bug
> against guile that it should apply Marius' recent patch to
> ice-9/slib.scm
I have already done that, no need to worry.
>and furthermore that it should use slib when
> installed
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