Re: Pre-approval request for dpkg sync() changes for squeeze

2010-11-06 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 23:18:47 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:35:54AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: Those are related to the fsync()/sync() changes in dpkg from some time ago, the patches would: 1) Switch back from sync() to fsync() before rename() (while keeping

Re: Transferring conffiles between packages (Re: Bug#564254: conflicting /etc/bash_completion)

2010-11-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 15:14:36 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: On 2010-01-08, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I got this on the buildd: Unpacking bash-completion (from .../bash-completion_1%3a1.1-3_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing

Re: Pre-approval request for dpkg sync() changes for squeeze

2010-11-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-11-06 08:46 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 23:18:47 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:35:54AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: What are the implications for ext4 and btrfs? They are going to be slower with this change. Are you sure this is the case

Re: Pre-approval request for dpkg sync() changes for squeeze

2010-11-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 10:20:29 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sat, 06 Nov 2010, Guillem Jover wrote: Finally, while accepting patch 2) alone might make sense, accepting 1) alone would not. BTW, I think we should go with patch 2 alone currently (i.e. just add --force-unsafe-io).

Re: Pre-approval request for dpkg sync() changes for squeeze

2010-11-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Guillem Jover wrote: The worst that could happen on other file systems w/o the sync()/fsync() before rename()s for extracted files was that the dpkg database might get slightly out of sync relative to what was installed on disk, but that's at most confusing, nothing compared to getting

Re: Pre-approval request for dpkg sync() changes for squeeze

2010-11-06 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 16:33:14 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Guillem Jover wrote: The worst that could happen on other file systems w/o the sync()/fsync() before rename()s for extracted files was that the dpkg database might get slightly out of sync relative to what was installed on disk,

Re: Pre-approval request for dpkg sync() changes for squeeze

2010-11-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Guillem Jover wrote: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15910 Ah, sorry for the noise. I can see why one would be annoyed with Ted's proposed solutions (e.g., don't crash), yes. Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#602518: [INTL:it] Wrong translation of however.

2010-11-06 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno ven, 05/11/2010 alle 20.09 +0100, Christian PERRIER ha scritto: Quoting Pietro Battiston (m...@pietrobattiston.it): Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.8.5 In po/it.po at line 3469, I find msgid ; however:\n msgstr ; comunque:\n This is _wrong_, and makes the message