On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:55:52PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2011, Stephen Grant Brown wrote:
> > I would like to install dpkg under Windows Vista.
>
> This is almost certainly going to be an exercise in pain.
For building it, maybe, but not for getting it prebuilt. Cygwin port
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011, Stephen Grant Brown wrote:
> I would like to install dpkg under Windows Vista.
This is almost certainly going to be an exercise in pain.
> /home/Stephen/src/dpkg-1.14.30/lib/nfmalloc.c:67: undefined reference to
> `_obstck_free'
> ../lib/libdpkg.a(nfmalloc.o): In function `n
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Hi All,
I would like to install dpkg under Windows Vista.
I have downloaded "dpkg_1.14.30.tar.gz" and unpacked it into a cygwin bash
shell in Microsoft Windows Vista..
I "cd dpkg-1.14.30", then "./configure" then "make"
Make throws up
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 10:33:21PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Andreas Metzler
> wrote:
> >> What's the problem with fixing automake?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > in a nutshell: I doubt anybody who has the knowledge to fix it cares,
> > and there is more to it than
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On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Andreas Metzler
wrote:
>> What's the problem with fixing automake?
>
> Hello,
>
> in a nutshell: I doubt anybody who has the knowledge to fix it cares,
> and there is more to it than a
> --with-stuff-usually-in-libdir-but-we-want-it-below-urs=/usr/lib.
> Installing
Ted Ts'o mit.edu> writes:
> actually. The right answer has been known for decades, and it's is
> very simple; write a temp file, copy over the xattr's and ACL's if you
> care (in many cases, such as an application's private state files, it
> won't care, so it can skip this step --- it's only the
Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> I don't think there's much room for argument at all, the FHS definition of
>> /lib is pretty clear. :)
>> Yes, this does cause problems for autotools and the like when it
>> comes time to install, since this FHS-
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On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:26:29PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>
>> Given that the issue has come up before so often, I expected there to
>> be a FAQ about it.
>
> Your asking the question over (and over... and over...) doesn't make
> it an F
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:26:29PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
> Given that the issue has come up before so often, I expected there to
> be a FAQ about it.
Your asking the question over (and over... and over...) doesn't make
it an FAQ. :-)
Aside from your asking over and over, it hasn't
Hi
Dne Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:56:44 +0200
Shachar Shemesh napsal(a):
> In essence, it is impossible, as far as I know (patches welcome) to
> avoid a race when symlinks are involved (with specific exceptions). The
> assumption is, and has always been, that the directory resides inside a
> locatio
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> BTW - feedback welcome.
Where are the regressions vs the non-atomic variant listed?
Olaf
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On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> On 02/01/11 17:37, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>
>> A userspace lib is fine with me. In fact, I've been asking for it
>> multiple times. Result: no response.
>>
>>
>
> Excuse me?
>
> You (well, Henrique, but you were CCed) said "how about a u
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Ted Ts'o schrieb:
>
>> This is possible. It would be specific only to file systems that
>> support inodes (i.e., ix-nay for NFS, FAT, etc.).
>
> FAT supports inodes ?
ix-nay: no/except
Olaf
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On 03/01/11 14:10, Adam Borowski wrote:
There's a race condition:
while [ 1 ]; do ln -s /etc/passwd somefile.tmp; done
"Hey root, could you please use this program using libsafewrite on
'somefile'?"
Two questions:
1. Is this race a regression from the single file case?
2. Is this race a
On 03/01/11 16:05, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Doesn't the Debian project care about regressions (and quality in general)?
I'm sorry, but from scanning the conversation so far, no one but you
seems to regard this as either a regression or a loss of quality. I will
shut up at this point to le
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> On 03/01/11 14:54, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
>>
>> That's one of the more interesting parts.
>>
>
> It sure is to you. I'm not sure about other users. I'll tell you what - I'll
Doesn't the Debian project care about regressions (and quality
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 09:49:40AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>
> > 1) You care about data loss in the case of power failure, but not in
> > the case of hard drive or storage failure, *AND* you are writing tons
> > and tons of tiny 3-4 byte files and so you are worried about
> > per
On 03/01/11 14:54, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
That's one of the more interesting parts.
It sure is to you. I'm not sure about other users. I'll tell you what -
I'll make the project's home page a wiki, and you can document these to
your heart's content.
Shachar
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On 03/01/11 14:10, Adam Borowski wrote:
There's a race condition:
while [ 1 ]; do ln -s /etc/passwd somefile.tmp; done
"Hey root, could you please use this program using libsafewrite on
'somefile'?"
Two questions:
1. Is this race a regression from the single file case?
2. Is this race avoi
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>> Where are the regressions vs the non-atomic variant listed?
>
> nowhere, yet. It's not released.
That's one of the more interesting parts.
Does it destroy ACLs? Didn't see any code to preserve them.
Olaf
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Ted,
Thanks for the reply and detailed analysis.
> Which gets me back to the question of use cases. When are we going to
> be using this monster? For many use cases, where the original reason
Where "implicit rollbacks" are desireable, I suppose. It is incompatible
with edit-in-place, anyway.
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:43:24PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've promised to get a library out there, and here it is. The base
> URL is https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite, and the actual code is
> at https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite/blob/master/safewrite.c
[...]
> Give my
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 04:14:15PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>
>> Last time you ignored my response, but let's try again.
>> The implementation would be comparable to using a temp file, so
>> there's no need to keep 2 g in memory.
>> Write t
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Note that on the other side of the fence there's something called TxF
Not GA AFAIK.
> And what if you're changing one byte inside a 50 GB file?
> I see an easy implementation on btrfs/ocfs2 (assuming no other writers),
> but on ext3/4, that'
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh >> Maybe I
wasn't clear, in that case I'm sorry. To me, O_ATOMIC is
> Whether this should map to O_ATOMIC in glibc or be something new, I don't
> care. But if it is a flag, I'd highly suggest naming it O_CREATEUNLINKED or
> something else
Hi all,
I've promised to get a library out there, and here it is. The base URL
is https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite, and the actual code is at
https://github.com/Shachar/safewrite/blob/master/safewrite.c
This is not a formal release just yet (plus one function is still
missing an implemen
On 02/01/11 17:37, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
A userspace lib is fine with me. In fact, I've been asking for it
multiple times. Result: no response.
Excuse me?
You (well, Henrique, but you were CCed) said "how about a user space
lib"? I said "I'm working on one, will be ready about this we
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