Re: Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

2010-10-20 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hello, On sekmadienis 10 Spalis 2010 15:21:47 Guillem Jover wrote: Anyway, I actually had the changes around last July, and I'll run them through the release team to see what they say. I've rebased them now, and will polish them a bit, but they are essentially these:

Re: Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

2010-10-20 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 22:20:31 +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote: Btw, how will I be able to enable --force-unsafe-io for dpkg when it's run under apt/aptitude? Maybe environment variable and/or /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg option is a better solution then? -o DPkg::options=--force-unsafe-io? Cheers,

Re: Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

2010-10-20 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hello, On trečiadienis 20 Spalis 2010 22:33:34 Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 22:20:31 +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote: Btw, how will I be able to enable --force-unsafe-io for dpkg when it's run under apt/aptitude? Maybe environment variable and/or /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg option is

Re: Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

2010-10-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Modestas Vainius wrote: On trečiadienis 20 Spalis 2010 22:33:34 Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 22:20:31 +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote: Btw, how will I be able to enable --force-unsafe-io for dpkg when it's run under apt/aptitude? Maybe environment

Re: Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

2010-10-20 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hello, On trečiadienis 20 Spalis 2010 23:08:36 Raphael Hertzog wrote: It does but it's “-o DPkg::options::=--force-unsafe-io”. Indeed, this syntax works. Thanks. And /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg can be used to enable any command-line parameter so you should be able to put force-unsafe-io in that file

Re: Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

2010-10-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: 3) dpkg is pointlessly slow in such use cases as buildds where *sync() is not important at all. Well, even if the buildd chroot supposedly should be able to be recreated easily, if the zero-lenght file issues appear on it, then it might not be

Re: Bug#584254: dpkg should support a --force-unsafe-io option or such

2010-10-10 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 12:37:27 +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote: On sekmadienis 10 Spalis 2010 01:06:41 Otavio Salvador wrote: On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Modestas Vainius mo...@debian.org wrote: It does not make much sense for dpkg to be in this uber-paranoid mode at