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Am 27.09.2012 09:22, schrieb Florian Philipp: |
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> Am 26.09.2012 23:53, schrieb Michael Mol: |
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>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>> Am 26.09.2012 22:43, schrieb Matt Turner: |
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>>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>>> A few months ago, I filed bug 423651 to ask that bzip2 on the install |
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>>>>> media be replaced with |
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>>>>> pbzip2. It was closed a short while later, telling me that it'd |
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>>>>> involve changing what's kept in @system, and that had to be discussed |
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>>>>> here, rather than in a bug report. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> If we're going to ship a parallel bzip2 implementation, it should be |
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>>>> lbzip2 and not pbzip2. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> lbzip2 can decompress bz2 archives with multiple threads that haven't |
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>>>> been compressed with lbzip2/pbzip2. |
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>>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> This seems relevant, especially comment 12ff: |
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>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309683 |
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>>> |
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>>> For further anecdotal evidence: I've used pbzip2 with USE="symlink" for |
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>>> several months now and never had trouble with it. Checking out lbzip2 |
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>>> now. I noticed it doesn't install a bunzip2 symlink. |
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>> Piotr Szymaniak asked me about lbzip2, and I bounced the question over |
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>> to my friend. He didn't investigate it deeply; it crashed (OOM or |
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>> something else, I don't know) when he tried it on a large file. Could |
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>> have been from 2GB to 2TB, from what he has laying around. I don't |
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>> know; I didn't get that one in writing. :) |
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>> But if it proves to be stable for small and very large files, I'd have |
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>> no complaint. :) |
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> |
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> I just encountered this: |
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> bzip2 -c </srv/qemu/hpwin.img >/dev/null |
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> bzip2: |
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> /var/tmp/portage/app-arch/lbzip2-2.2/work/lbzip2-2.2/src/encode.c:794: |
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> generate_initial_trees: Assertion `a < b' failed. |
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> |
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> Something in that file is upsetting lbzip2. I'm investigating. |
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Okay, reported and (hopefully) fixed in |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436382 |
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In my infinite confidence in my own coding and testing skills I suggest |
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copying the proposed patch to /etc/portage/patches/app-arch/lbzip2-2.2 |
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before trying out lbzip2. ;-) |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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