Gianluca, After talking in #hug about the stowfs translator, somebody (bddebian?) brought up the question "how do I know which package that file FOO belongs to?". I think it's a valid concern, and I'm not sure how to answer the question.
Maybe using `locate' will suffice? Ben On 7/24/05, Gianluca Guida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please let me excuse with Richard M. Stallman for receiving this mail two > times, since I've sent a first one to private only by accident. > > On 7/24/05, Richard M. Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is this actually working now? > > > Yes, it's actually working. I consider the stowfs support for unionfs > completed. > > unionfs has still some issue on writing behaviour though (interested > people can check README and CAVEAT in the source), but this > should not be a problem in case we want to set /bin and other > stowfs-handled directories readonly. > > I don't know if writing support will be needed for /bin (and others) or > not, but fixing and making a more rational writing support of unionfs > will be the local next big thing, since it's the only thing not working at > the moment. > > More over, the discussion about unionfs limitation on writing support > is a bit more complex (and perhaps less disastrous than what you > might be thinking after my words) so if this triggers a discussion > about this topic I'll be giving more details. > > Thanks, > Gianluca > > -- > It was a type of people I did not know, I found them very strange and > they did not inspire confidence at all. Later I learned that I had been > introduced to electronic engineers. > E. W. Dijkstra > > > _______________________________________________ > gnu-system-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss > _______________________________________________ gnu-system-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss
