[Rpm-maint] Fingerprinting skipDir() brokenness ponderings

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Jun 13 13:23:24 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 11:33 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> 1) Remove the "temporary" skipDir() hack dating back to 2002 completely.
> + Is really the responsible and right thing to do.
> + Fixes the shared files problems. 
> - Memory consumption goes sky-high and performance degrades badly. This
>    might not be that much of a problem in most modern systems but for eg
>    OLPC is likely to be a showstopper.

FWIW, OLPC doesn't use RPM.

~spot




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