Todd Vierling <tv%duh.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Jan Schaumann wrote:
>
> > In rev 1.49 of pkgsrc/mk/bulk/post-build, you committed
>
> Sorry I haven't gotten back to you on this yet....
>
> > -chdir($USR_PKGSRC);
> > -system("find . -name $BROKENFILE -print -o -name $BROKENWRKLOG -print |
> > $GTAR -T - -plcf - | (cd $FTP; $GTAR -plxf -)");
> > +chdir($vars{USR_PKGSRC});
> > +my_system("/bin/ls -1 $vars{BROKENFILE} $vars{BROKENWRKLOG}
> > */*/$vars{BROKENFILE} */*/$vars{BROKENWRKLOG} 2>/dev/null | $vars{GTAR} -T
> > - -plcf - | (cd $vars{FTP}; $vars{GTAR} -plxf -)");
> >
> > On some systems, this now leads to too many arguments to ls(1),
> > subsequently producing an empty bulk-log. What was wrong with using
> > find(1)?
>
> NFS slowness, for a nfs-mounted pkgsrc.
>
> Hm. This is ugly. I suppose it can go back to find, but I may try to find
> a new way to do this in the future.
This still hasn't been fixed. I'd really like to have a functional
post-build on the new branch -- can we please revert this change to use
find(1) again? It's better to have it be slow over NFS than to not have
it working at all on some platforms.
-Jan
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