On 3/26/20 6:12 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:41:56AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 10:54, Tomasz Torcz <tomek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 02:08:57PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 03:29:50PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
No, rpm doesn't use many Linux-specific calls and this is no
exception. In fact it doesn't use any of the *at() family calls
directly either.
But why?! It's not like rpm is massive on Windows Server... Isn't
good support for Linux absolutely the most important thing?
Well, RPM is a package manager on AIX. IBM/Redhat may want
to keep AIX alive ;-)
My understanding is that is not the only place it is used. A Linux only
version would end being another fork.. I doubt it matters much as it did 10
or 20 years ago.. but it would still be a splitting of community resources
versus a growing of community resources. Not all the world can be as free
as systemd :).
Well, OK, but let's consider that Linux installations are probably
something like 99.9%. IMO it's totally appropriate to implement an
atomic path for linux, and implement a non-atomic fallback for the
systems that need that. We're not talking about anything big here, rather
a ~10 line function.
Patches welcome - well tested ones that is. That's one of the issues
with such alternate paths: that simple thing suddenly has two separate
paths you need to test instead of one.
Truly atomic database rebuild would be nice of course, but all this
attention on that is way out of proportion.
- Panu -
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