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and subject line Re: Bug#666035: Wish: sort defaults to /tmp; ?should? default
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Package: coreutils
Version: 8.5-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: d-i lfs
This report concerning wheezy is being submitted on a squeeze host. Current
situation in
wheezy installer is to make /tmp default to ramfs. Coreutils sort uses /tmp for
scratch
files. Having 'sort' use only ram for scratch severly limits its usefulness in
sorting
files whose sizes are greater than ram size. Discussion gleened from reading
developer
discussion list by this non-developer indicate that some developers believe
that Debian
policy is to use /tmp for 'small' temporary files and /var/tmp for 'large'
temporary
files. Presuming this belief to be actual policy, the current coreutils package
is not
compliant with Debian policy. To me, it seems reasonable to change coreutils
sort
default to use /var/tmp in order to get out of the way of the ramfs
'improvement' in the
installer. For me, it would allow me to avoid making changes to many little
bash scripts
that I have written that use coreutils sort on large files.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library
ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.11.3-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:34:19AM -0600, you wrote:
This report concerning wheezy is being submitted on a squeeze host. Current
situation in
wheezy installer is to make /tmp default to ramfs. Coreutils sort uses /tmp for
scratch
files. Having 'sort' use only ram for scratch severly limits its usefulness in
sorting
files whose sizes are greater than ram size. Discussion gleened from reading
developer
discussion list by this non-developer indicate that some developers believe
that Debian
policy is to use /tmp for 'small' temporary files and /var/tmp for 'large'
temporary
files.
That's not correct. /var/tmp is for persistent temporary files (those
which should survive a reboot), not "large" temporary files. If you need
more /tmp space I suggest either adding swap or moving it from tmpfs to
another partition. (Or reset TMPDIR on a case-by-case basis as suggested
previously.)
Mike Stone
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