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* [gentoo-portage-dev] xattr wrapper for install, bug #465000
@ 2014-01-26 22:53 99% Anthony G. Basile
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From: Anthony G. Basile @ 2014-01-26 22:53 UTC (permalink / raw
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Hi everyone,

A while back, I wrote a python wrapper for install to preserve xattrs. 
Its installed in LIBDIR/portage/bin/install.py.  It is *painfully* slow. 
  For a package like moodle with 16650 .php files, none of which 
probably need any xattr's set, it takes about 30 mins to install.  I 
rewrote the wrapper in C.  Replacing the python wrapper with the C 
wrapper, the same example reduces from about 30 mins to 2 mins.

Mike and I did some back and forth about how best to write it.  The 
latest version is pretty much done at

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465000#c56

We need to get that integrated into portage.  1) I'm not 100% sure how 
to do that.  2) We may want to install it at /usr/bin/install-xattr 
because I'm sure it will be useful for more than just portage.

Comments?

-- 
Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
Chair of Information Technology
D'Youville College
Buffalo, NY 14201
(716) 829-8197


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