Re: Anything to do?

[Ben Asselstine]

Gianluca,

After talking in #hug about the stowfs translator, somebody
(bddebian?) brought up the question "how do I know which package that
file FOO belongs to?".  I think it's a valid concern, and I'm not sure
how to answer the question.

Maybe using `locate' will suffice?

Ben

On 7/24/05, Gianluca Guida <address@hidden> wrote:
> Please let me excuse with Richard M. Stallman for receiving this mail two
> times, since I've sent a first one to private only by accident.
> 
> On 7/24/05, Richard M. Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Is this actually working now?
> >
> Yes, it's actually working. I consider the stowfs support for unionfs
> completed.
> 
> unionfs has still some issue on writing behaviour though (interested
> people can check README and CAVEAT in the source), but this
> should not be a problem in case we want to set /bin and other
> stowfs-handled directories readonly.
> 
> I don't know if writing support will be needed for /bin (and others) or
> not, but fixing and making a more rational writing support of unionfs
> will be the local next big thing, since it's the only thing not working at
> the moment.
> 
> More over, the discussion about unionfs limitation on writing support
> is a bit more complex (and perhaps less disastrous than what you
> might be thinking after my words) so if this triggers a discussion
> about this topic I'll be giving more details.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gianluca
> 
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