[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#321073: please add support for unionfs

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 22.10.2006, 15:50 +0200 schrieb Loïc Minier:
>         Hi,
> 
>  This is a followup for Debian bug <http://bugs.debian.org/321073>.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > The base.tgz will be constantly extracted, i.e., a base-directory. All
> > operations that until now meant extracting, modifying, and recompression
> > will just work on that directory directly.
> 
>  Pbuilder may now use cowdancer to build packages, but the original bug
>  requested "unionfs" support.  It seems from the log that unionfs is not
>  good enough, so I suppose this bug should either be closed (because
>  another implementation provides the same features), wontfixed (as
>  unionfs isn't good enough), or kept open until unionfs is good enough.
> 
>  What do you people think?

I said “unionfs” because that's the only COW method I new back then. So
if the cowdancer setup allows for fast operation in about the way I hope
unionfs would help doing it, then from my side this bug has been
resolved.

Greetings,
Joachim
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