Re: so long, and thanks for all the fish

2013-04-05 Thread Aneurin Price
On 4 April 2013 18:28, wrote: > There is apparently no mode of argument, or "style of > communications", which is capable of penetrating the Debian > bureaucracy. It is impervious, even to patches which have been > previously solicited. Silly me, for taking that seriously. > You need to remember

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-11 Thread Aneurin Price
On 11 June 2012 22:59, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Aneurin Price writes: > >> (Note that we are talking about applications which fail gracefully >> when confronted with ENOSPC, > > Are we? What's the problem then? > Honestly, I have no idea. It's clear that some p

Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-11 Thread Aneurin Price
On 11 June 2012 15:21, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 11/06/12 15:01, Aneurin Price wrote: >> as far as I am aware a swap file is the better >> choice in virtually all situations > > Assuming > <http://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation/Hibernate_Without_Swap_Partition> is &g

Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-11 Thread Aneurin Price
On 10 June 2012 19:31, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: >> swap file on / [...] is >> really the direction that we should be going > NO ! > > Does this need to be explained? :/ > Not quite sure what you're objecting to. If you are against the use of swap files

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-11 Thread Aneurin Price
On 8 June 2012 12:04, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Any file system will run out of space given the broken applications > mentioned in this thread. It is not productive to redefine applications as 'broken' simply because they do not conform to an arbitrary set of requirements that you have just added, espe

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useful

2012-05-29 Thread Aneurin Price
On 26 May 2012 19:20, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > *Important*: use "df -h /tmp" NOT "du -hs /tmp", since the flash player > deletes the file entry from /tmp as soon as it gets the inode allocated. > I believe this a measure to "prevent" piracy (people ripping the video > from /tmp) I thin

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-15 Thread Aneurin Price
On 15 November 2011 08:17, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:41:54 +0100 > Andrew Shadura wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:14:18 +0100 >> Josselin Mouette wrote: >> >> > > No it does not work like you said. We know the matrix structure, not >> > > the kernel. We map an

The multiarch conundrum

2009-07-01 Thread Aneurin Price
Hi, I've just been trying to dig through some of the multitude of past discussions on the planning and implementation of multiarch in Debian (and Ubuntu). The short version of this for TLDR folks is that nobody seems to have coherently written down all the problems in a way that they can be addre

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-06-30 Thread Aneurin Price
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 05:11, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Aneurin Price writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I've just spent over an hour writing and rewriting this mail, and determined >> that I can't think of a single constructive thing to say. Not wanting to

ia32-libs transition

2009-06-29 Thread Aneurin Price
Hi, I've just spent over an hour writing and rewriting this mail, and determined that I can't think of a single constructive thing to say. So I'll just ask a couple of questions instead: Is there any way of preventing this kind of major breakage in the future? I don't think many people expect th