ext Chow Loong Jin hyper...@ubuntu.com writes:
Could we somehow avoid using sync()? sync() syncs all mounted filesystems,
which
isn't exactly very friendly when you have a few slow-syncing filesystems like
btrfs (or even NFS) mounted.
Hmm, right. We could keep a list of all files that need
ext Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes:
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011, Marius Vollmer wrote:
- Instead, we move all packages that are to be unpacked into
half-installed / reinstreq before touching the first one, and put a
big sync() right before carefully writing /var/lib/dpkg/status
Hi,
I have recently been looking into where dpkg spends most of its time
when installing very many small packages, and came up with the following
idea to speed it up.
- Most of the time is spent writing files very carefully, a lot of them
in /var/lib/dpkg/updates.
- We can avoid this by
ext Chow Loong Jin hyper...@ubuntu.com writes:
I remember seeing there being some list of files to be fsynced in one of the
older dpkgs. It's probably that which led to the ext4 slowdown [...]
Hmm, performance is the ultimate reason for doing all this, but right
now, I am mostly interested in
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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:13:16 +0300
Source: magit
Binary: magit
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Version: 0.7-1
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Urgency: low
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Hi,
here is some ghost spooking around in my head, and maybe you can help me
put it to rest.
The GNU build system makes a distinction between maintainers of a
source package and the people who eventually install it. Essentially,
GNU is producing a source distribution that is aiming for very
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes:
I’m considering asking for the removal of this snippet, since it is only
useful for those having upgraded a pre-woody system all along. While I’m
one of those doing that, I’m not sure there are as many people like
that, and I guess they could live with
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes:
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote:
Afaik, Ubuntu is the only Linux distro which supports and uses tmpfs by
default.
The OpenEmbedded distros do this too, I've especially seen that the
ones associated with OpenMoko do
Rafael Laboissiere raf...@debian.org writes:
Yes, the formulae are logically equivalent to each other. However, for
some packages I would like to have (A B) | (C D), meaning ((A and B) or
(C and D)). This does not seem to be doable with the current Depends
syntax.
You just need to do the
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@gmail.com
* Package name: magit
Version : 0.7
Upstream Author : Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@gmail.com
* URL : http://zagadka.vm.bytemark.co.uk/magit/
* License : GPLv3, FDL
Programming
Gregor Hoffleit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now I have no idea about guile and scm and slib: Should I file a bug
against guile that it should apply Marius' recent patch to
ice-9/slib.scm
I have already done that, no need to worry.
and furthermore that it should use slib when
installed ? Or
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