a classic rule of unix - 'if it aint broken, dont fix it' regards.
2010/5/21 Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> > Hi, > > using tmpfs as easy as possible within live-helper would be nice > (optional, of course, since we can't know the amount of ram and the > image size to build) in order to speed up the build process a bit, but > to do that most effectively, the whole build-tree should be in the tmpfs. > > since we can't know the current directy before building, and to avoid > moving things arround in a hackish way, there's only one solution that i > can think of: moving everything except the config into build/, and > having build/ on a tmpfs. > > means, before the change, we have: > > server4:/home/user# mkdir foo > server4:/home/user# cd foo/ > server4:/home/user/foo# lh config && lh build > server4:/home/user/foo# ls > auto binary binary-hybrid.iso binary.list binary.packages cache > chroot config > server4:/home/user/foo# > > and afterwards we'd have: > > server4:/home/user# mkdir foo > server4:/home/user# cd foo/ > server4:/home/user/foo# lh config && lh build > server4:/home/user/foo# ls > auto binary-hybrid.iso binary.list binary.packages build config > server4:/home/user/foo# cd build/ > server4:/home/user/foo/build# ls > binary cache chroot > server4:/home/user/foo/build# > > since this is quite a big change for those that do hackish stuff (for > those, that are using config/* properly, there will nothing change, > since the binaries are put in the same place as before).. > > ..what do you think about such a layout change? > > Regards, > Daniel > > -- > Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist > Email: [email protected] > Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- Harshad Joshi
