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On 06-04-2009 16:23:10 -0700, Steven Parkes wrote: |
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> > Yea, there have been conflicting reports of coreutils status. For |
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> > example, http://bugs.gentoo.org/264007 - but other people can't |
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> > reproduce it. |
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> Hmmm not sure why people can't reproduce, unless it's a new bug in Darwin, because it's definitely a bug in Darwin. I added the details to the ticket. |
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I don't think it's a bug. I think coreutils recently started to try |
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harder to obtain the information it needs, thus for instance going into |
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an ldap or NT domain lookup, which just takes an awful amount of time. |
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> I don't know the approach to patching such things. Does prefix maintain patches for OS bug workarounds? I know there are patches. Including this kind of thing? |
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We do, and I think, judging from the bugs, that we should try to find |
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the configure flag that reverts this behaviour and add it so. |
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> There are a few possible ways to work around the bug. I put the details in the ticket. Happy to contribute the code ... |
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Ok, let's continue the discussion there, then. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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