Bug#860453: ITP: sparseutils -- interact with sparse files
On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 09:51:24AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Description : interact with sparse files > > This doesn't align with the extended description. Sounds more like > "automated creation and inspection of sparse files". I'll tweak the short the description. I disagree that mine doesn't align with the long one, though. > > This package contains the utilities sparsemap and mksparse. Sparsemap > > lists the areas of a file that are holes and data, and mksparse creates > > a new file with holes and data. > > It would be nice to have such functionality directly in fallocate(1) > rather than having to install python 3 just for that. Feel free to get fallocate upstream to change it to work like mksparse does, and to write a tool like sparsemap. -- I want to build worthwhile things that might last. --joeyh signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#860453: ITP: sparseutils -- interact with sparse files
Hallo, * Lars Wirzenius [Mon, Apr 17 2017, 10:27:15AM]: > * Package name: sparseutils > Version : 0.0.1 > Upstream Author : Richard Ipsum > * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sparseutils/ > * License : GPL3+ > Programming Lang: Python3 > Description : interact with sparse files This doesn't align with the extended description. Sounds more like "automated creation and inspection of sparse files". > This package contains the utilities sparsemap and mksparse. Sparsemap > lists the areas of a file that are holes and data, and mksparse creates > a new file with holes and data. It would be nice to have such functionality directly in fallocate(1) rather than having to install python 3 just for that. Regards, Eduard.
Bug#860453: ITP: sparseutils -- interact with sparse files
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lars Wirzenius * Package name: sparseutils Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Richard Ipsum * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sparseutils/ * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: Python3 Description : interact with sparse files This package contains the utilities sparsemap and mksparse. Sparsemap lists the areas of a file that are holes and data, and mksparse creates a new file with holes and data. The test suite for Obnam, my package, will be using this in the future.
