Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (257 mails)

[Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxx>]

Sankar P wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We could patch these wrappers to take care of vacuuming the DB at
> > application exit (or at N-th exit, or storing the date of the last
> > vacuum and check if it's older than N days). What do you think?
>
> Is it okay for multiple rpms to patch a single file ?  (I know it is
> okay for something like /etc/pam.d/gdm) I am not sure if there are any
> packaging guidelines against such practices.
>
> i.e., our vacuumizer will patch /usr/bin/firefox which is owned by
> someother package, FireFox.

No. I was suggesting to patch the individual packages, so the vacuumizer
wouldn't be needed anymore. And to get these patches upstream.

> If it is okay, then patching the wrappers to update on every Nth
> access may be the smartest fix to speedup things. In this way, you
> don't have to vacuumize the db-s of applications that you may never
> use. For instance, if someone is happy with his mutt+fetchmail, he
> need not worry about a new vacuumizer grinding the disk searching for
> 'folders.db' under ~/.evolution.

Agree.

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Best Regards / S pozdravom,

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