cdrtools / star patches
Hello.
Attached are two patches: one for cdrtools, the other for star
(it will be obvious from the filenames).
The one for cdrtools updates README.linux-shm. The Linux SHM
system has changed much, I believe, and now it uses the TMPFS
filesystem. The update contains the help file from, IIRC, linux
2.4.13.
The one for star 1.4a08 makes many little non-programming
corrections, such as spelling, grammar, and consistency.
Feel free to completely ignore this message, but please tell me
if you make use of these patches in some way.
Thank you for your time.
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Re: cdrtools RPM
On 17 Nov 2001, Danilo Godec wrote: > How about a src.rpm or a spec fiel? I have an alpha platform and > I'd like to build the new cdrtools... Sure... I've gotten more than enough comments from people (Denis Pelletier is among them) about offering an SRPM, for at least the SPEC file and a diff. Well, I'm working on that. Should be up in the next couple of days... -- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
star 1.4a08 comments / questions / suggestions (was: Re: cdrtools RPM)
On 16 Nov 2001, Joerg Schilling wrote: > How about putting "star" on your list? > > > It's bad to see, that currently all Linux systems only have the > non-standard GNU tar while the standard compilant star is > available for a long time. It's up. Check out http://home.earthlink.net/~noodlez84/rpm_packages.html . It's working, but I have some problems / questions (I couldn't find a star mailing list, so I hope I don't get beaten down for this post): 1. On my machine, star is SLOW... More than 7x slower on average than GNU tar... That can't be right. linux:~ # time star -z -x -f star-1.4a08.tar.gz -C=/tmp/ star: 234 blocks + 9216 bytes (total of 2405376 bytes = 2349.00k). real0m17.925s user0m0.420s sys 0m1.550s linux:~ # rm -rf /tmp/star-1.4/ linux:~ # time tar --gzip -xf star-1.4a08.tar.gz -C /tmp/ real0m1.620s user0m0.460s sys 0m0.650s linux:~ # rm -rf /tmp/star-1.4/ linux:~ # time gzip -dc star-1.4a08.tar.gz | star -x -f - - C=/tmp/ star: 234 blocks + 9216 bytes (total of 2405376 bytes = 2349.00k). real0m15.408s user0m0.420s sys 0m1.570s linux:~ # rm -rf /tmp/star-1.4/ linux:~ # time bzip2 -dc fubar.tar.bz2 | star -x -f - -C=/tmp/ star: 262 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 2682880 bytes = 2620.00k). real0m10.099s user0m2.320s sys 0m0.970s linux:/tmp # time star -x -f fubar.tar star: 262 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 2682880 bytes = 2620.00k). real0m10.515s user0m0.060s sys 0m0.860s linux:/tmp # rm -rf fubar linux:/tmp # time tar -xf fubar.tar real0m0.676s user0m0.040s sys 0m0.440s linux:/tmp # In the last operation, star used ~15.7% of my RAM (total :32MB). GNU tar only ~2.7%. I would have no qualms about using star over GNU tar if it was faster even if it used more RAM. 2. There are several cool things in GNU tar that don't work in star. Here's a list: options :: star equivalent o -cf :: -c -f o -xf :: -x -f o -C /fubar :: -C=/fubar IMO, these options should be added if not for user convenience, then for GNU tar compatibility. 3. Is there a way to remove files from tar archives using star? 4. I noticed the following files are installed when 'make install'ing Schilling programs: /usr/include/align.h /usr/include/avoffset.h /usr/lib/libdeflt.a /usr/lib/libfile.a /usr/lib/libhfs.a /usr/lib/librscg.a /usr/lib/libscg.a /usr/lib/libschily.a /usr/lib/libunls.a What are they used for? Should I include them in my RPMs? If you take a peek at http://home.earthlink.net/~noodlez84/rpm_packages.html , I have a devel RPM for every Schilling package I compile. Is this the "right" way? 5. Joerg Schilling: I read your GNU tar rant in the rather lengthy README.otherbugs, and I must say, I agree with you. Even the folks at 'file' know that GNU tar != POSIX tar: linux:~ # file some_gnu_tar_file.tar some_gnu_tar_file.tar: GNU tar archive linux:~ # file some_star_archive.tar some_star_archive.tar: POSIX tar archive BTW, I apologize for the length of this message. -- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrtools RPM
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Joerg Schilling wrote:
{ >From: Danilo Godec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
{
{ >On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Karol Pietrzak wrote:
{
{ >> I have created RPMs for the latest cdrtools (now 1.11a11) and
{ >> posted them on my website at
{ >> http://home.earthlink.net/~noodlez84/rpm_packages.html . I have
{ >> been doing this for the last couple of weeks, actually.
{
{ >How about a src.rpm or a spec fiel? I have an alpha platform and I'd like
{ >to build the new cdrtools...
{
{ Do you have any problem?
{
{ I don't understand your statement: cdrtools compiles out of the box
{ on ~ 30 different platforms. Linux/alpha and True64 included
The only thing available on his web site is a i386 binary rpm. What Danilo
would want is a src.rpm (or the spec file to build the src.rpm) so that he
could recompile the src.rpm on his alpha platform and get an alpha.rpm. I
guees that he is using an rpm based linux distribution on his alpha.
Denis
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Re: cdrtools RPM
>From: Danilo Godec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Karol Pietrzak wrote: >> I have created RPMs for the latest cdrtools (now 1.11a11) and >> posted them on my website at >> http://home.earthlink.net/~noodlez84/rpm_packages.html . I have >> been doing this for the last couple of weeks, actually. >How about a src.rpm or a spec fiel? I have an alpha platform and I'd like >to build the new cdrtools... Do you have any problem? I don't understand your statement: cdrtools compiles out of the box on ~ 30 different platforms. Linux/alpha and True64 included Jörg EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrtools RPM
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Karol Pietrzak wrote: > I have created RPMs for the latest cdrtools (now 1.11a11) and > posted them on my website at > http://home.earthlink.net/~noodlez84/rpm_packages.html . I have > been doing this for the last couple of weeks, actually. How about a src.rpm or a spec fiel? I have an alpha platform and I'd like to build the new cdrtools... Hopefully it'll build on RedHat 6.1 ... Thanks, D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrtools RPM
On 16 Nov 2001, Joerg Schilling wrote: > There should be recent rpm's fron RedHat too, but I don't know > the location. Looking at RPMfind.net, the newest RPM is 1.10. > Thank you for the SuSE work. No problem. :) > Well it's a Linux only standard but it is close to that UNIX > systems do... > > How about putting "star" on your list? Sure... I just downloaded the source. I presume ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/alpha/star-1.4a08- sspm.tar.gz is the latest version. I am right? > It's bad to see, that currently all Linux systems only have the > non-standard GNU tar while the standard compilant star is > available for a long time. Perhaps I am ignorant, but I always assumed GNU tar _was_ standards complaint. Could you send me a link to the standard you have in mind? -- Karol Pietrzak PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
