Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 9/25/2009 5:59 AM:
>> When I see the tentacles of this change reaching so deeply into the core
>> of gnulib and coreutils, I have to question whether it is worthwhile
>> to accommodate mingw's lack of inode numbers.
>>
>> Opinions?
>
> Raise this iss
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According to Jim Meyering on 9/25/2009 5:59 AM:
> When I see the tentacles of this change reaching so deeply into the core
> of gnulib and coreutils, I have to question whether it is worthwhile
> to accommodate mingw's lack of inode numbers.
>
> Opini
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 9/24/2009 12:29 AM:
>> bool same = false;
>> ...
>> same = SAME_INODE (source_dir_stats, dest_dir_stats);
>> if (same < 0)
>> same = (identical_basenames
>> && strcmp (source_basename, dest_basename) == 0);
>
>
Ian Beckwith wrote:
> There is a wishlist bug report in debian:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522187
>
> suggesting an additional installer-style package for gnulib that
> downloads the latest version direct from the git repo.
>
> It occurs to me that it might be better to
Ian Beckwith wrote:
> once a package reaches the stable distribution, it
> can only be updated to fix security problems.
>
> This means that although users of the unstable and testing
> distributions will have a pretty up to date gnulib, users of the
> stable distribution will have a version that
