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From: Linda Walsh <xfs@tlinx.org>
To: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Why xfs_<utils> not 'readline' w/line-edit & history enabled?
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:21:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <506BBD45.90308@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11246457.6091377.1349236739598.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>



Nathan Scott wrote:
> Mmm, wasn't trying to pass judgement there - I'm sure the OpenSuSE
> package maintainer will take a patch to enable it in the spec file
> there if its not in place.
----
Wouldn't bet on it...

I tried to get them to NOT issue a disabling patch for default parallelism
in upstream sort, and they said not unless I could prove it wouldn't cause a
a hang in their build process (when it was first implemented, their algorithm
had a few problems due to default buffer sizes on linux), but that was 2 years
ago and O.Suse still won't enable it - but you can specify that you want
parallel sort with every invocation -- which doesn't help for 3rd party progs
that just call sort (like updatedb) -- unless you modify them as well..

They also don't support build packages via source on a opensuse installation ---
as it has "superfluous" packages installed, and they don't want to test for
interactions anymore.

I felt even if they wanted a cleanroom for production -- they could still do
rpmbuilds with a a clean-distro devel install as a test step that things
worked together, but it seems like they are moving away from supporting direct
development or building of packages except via a special cleaned root.

Disappointing.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-03  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-02 16:44 Why xfs_<utils> not 'readline' w/line-edit & history enabled? Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 18:41 ` Kinzel, David
2012-10-02 20:17 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-02 21:29   ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-03  2:06     ` Eric Sandeen
2012-10-03  2:16       ` Nathan Scott
2012-10-03  3:51         ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-03  3:58           ` Nathan Scott
2012-10-03  4:21             ` Linda Walsh [this message]
2012-10-04 12:12             ` David Disseldorp
2012-10-02 21:30   ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 21:34   ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 21:52     ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-02 22:52       ` Why xfs_<utils> not 'readline' w/line-edit & history enabled? (+attachment) Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 23:14         ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-02 23:34           ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 23:50             ` Dave Chinner

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