Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: FEATURES=binchecks strip for plain file packages e.g. latex, perl, python
Dnia 2013-09-20, o godz. 20:51:46 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On 9/20/13 12:24 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: As Michał said. Please consider updating the documentation - ebuild(5): RESTRICT = [strip,mirror,fetch,userpriv] This should be a space delimited list of portage features to restrict. You may use conditional syntax to vary restrictions as seen above in DEPEND. binchecks Disable all QA checks for binaries. This should ONLY be used in packages for which binary checks make no sense (linux-headers and kernel-sources, for example, can safely be skipped since they have no binaries). If the binary checks need to be skipped for other reasons (such as proprietary binaries), see the QA CONTROL VARIABLES section for more specific exemptions. This is currently used at least by sys-apps/man-pages, as well as packages in x11-themes and sys-kernel. This is just another of portage's deviations from the standard. PMS doesn't list RESTRICT=binchecks, and I suppose this makes using it in the tree at least a little wrong. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] RFC: FEATURES=binchecks strip for plain file packages e.g. latex, perl, python
Hi, what is your opinion to set FEATURES=binchecks strip for all those packages which purely install files. For example python package only installing scripts, or perl packages or latex. There might be more. Justin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: FEATURES=binchecks strip for plain file packages e.g. latex, perl, python
As Michał said. Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: Dnia 2013-09-20, o godz. 19:58:51 Justin (jlec) j...@gentoo.org napisał(a): what is your opinion to set FEATURES=binchecks strip for all those packages which purely install files. For example python package only installing scripts, or perl packages or latex. There might be more. Not worth the effort, and definitely not worth the confusion it will introduce (why there's FEATURES=strip here? does it install weird executables under some circumstances? did it so in the past and someone forgot to drop it?). In other words, it's awful overuse of RESTRICT for pseudo-optimization. RESTRICT is to restrict features when the package can't handle it. It's not for skipping no-ops in the name of supposed performance gain. If you really want to play like this, show us some benchmarks. Prove that it gains anything. Because as far as I can see, this is nowhere near a bottleneck for ebuild installs. Unless you can prove it's a real gain, a strong 'don't do it' from me. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: FEATURES=binchecks strip for plain file packages e.g. latex, perl, python
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Justin (jlec) j...@gentoo.org wrote: what is your opinion to set FEATURES=binchecks strip for all those packages which purely install files. For example python package only installing scripts, or perl packages or latex. There might be more. It may help to describe what this would improve (presumably reduce the installation time?).
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: FEATURES=binchecks strip for plain file packages e.g. latex, perl, python
Dnia 2013-09-20, o godz. 19:58:51 Justin (jlec) j...@gentoo.org napisał(a): what is your opinion to set FEATURES=binchecks strip for all those packages which purely install files. For example python package only installing scripts, or perl packages or latex. There might be more. Not worth the effort, and definitely not worth the confusion it will introduce (why there's FEATURES=strip here? does it install weird executables under some circumstances? did it so in the past and someone forgot to drop it?). In other words, it's awful overuse of RESTRICT for pseudo-optimization. RESTRICT is to restrict features when the package can't handle it. It's not for skipping no-ops in the name of supposed performance gain. If you really want to play like this, show us some benchmarks. Prove that it gains anything. Because as far as I can see, this is nowhere near a bottleneck for ebuild installs. Unless you can prove it's a real gain, a strong 'don't do it' from me. -- Best regards, Michał Górny signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: FEATURES=binchecks strip for plain file packages e.g. latex, perl, python
On 9/20/13 12:24 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: As Michał said. Please consider updating the documentation - ebuild(5): RESTRICT = [strip,mirror,fetch,userpriv] This should be a space delimited list of portage features to restrict. You may use conditional syntax to vary restrictions as seen above in DEPEND. binchecks Disable all QA checks for binaries. This should ONLY be used in packages for which binary checks make no sense (linux-headers and kernel-sources, for example, can safely be skipped since they have no binaries). If the binary checks need to be skipped for other reasons (such as proprietary binaries), see the QA CONTROL VARIABLES section for more specific exemptions. This is currently used at least by sys-apps/man-pages, as well as packages in x11-themes and sys-kernel. I'm fine either way, let's just make sure our mailing list advice matches documentation and established practice. Paweł signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
