On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:33:18AM -0500, Jon Ringle wrote: > I'm looking at adding aufs2 support in ptxdist > (http://aufs.sourceforge.net/README.aufs2).
Uuuh, overlay filesystems. Looks like a can of worms to me. Each time somebody came up with a new idea how to implement that on lkml, the kernel developers quickly told him about all the potential problems that might have. And in fact when we tried unionfs in the past, it did not the results we had in mind. So do what you have to do, but take care... > It appears to be distributed > only as a git tree. Two questions: > > 1) Has anyone already added support for aufs2 to ptxdist? Not here at ptx. > 2) Has anyone already added support to get via git? Perhaps git: and svn: > next to http: and ftp: :) I don't mind adding support for it if you send patches, in fact several people have already asked for it. However, note that ptxdist is all about reproduction & documentation, not only distro. I've seen too many $INSERT_YOUR_FAVOURITE_RCS_HERE who broke down after hardware defects and nobody was able to reconstruct well-known things like release tags any more then. Git is really perfect to push tons of patches into and never find them again, because something went wrong :) Tarballs plus patches are simple. You can fix them with vi if something breaks. That's the reason why, in the past, we went down the road of checking random git trees out, making tarballs and pushing them into the temporary_src directory. rsc -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- ptxdist mailing list [email protected]
