[gobolinux-users] New release of Scripts and Compile

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Andy Feldman <nereusren at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great job to everyone who worked on this release! There are some cool new
>  features I'm looking forward to using, and some excellent time-savers that
>  will make using and administering my system easier. A couple specific notes
>  below:
>
>
>  On Monday 05 May 2008 17:00, Jonas Karlsson wrote:
>  > CommandNotFound is a new feature that will hint about which
>  > package/recipe that should be installed for a missing command.
>
>  Neat. This can be very helpful when following instructions online that assume
>  you already have certain packages installed... even if they say which Debian
>  package contains the binary, that doesn't always correspond to a Gobo
>  package. Where does it get its data? As new Recipes are submitted in the
>  future, does someone have to maintain the list of binaries by hand?
>
>
>  > A new sandbox functionallity added - to complement the UnionFS
>  > implementation, that need patch for the kernel to be supported,
>  > UnionSanbox now also supports Fuse union filessystems, which are
>  > user space filesystem, while Fuse is accepted in mainline kernel.
>
>  Does this mean the kernel won't need to be shipped with a UnionFS patch any
>  longer? I admire the Gobo principle of keeping every package as close to the
>  original sources as possible, so it would be neat to see a reduction in
>  kernel patches as a result of this improvement.
>

Not necessarily. There are still some uses of the in-kernel unionfs
implementation, as in the LiveCD (and one still needs to check the
performance of the LiveCD using unionfs-fuse, which will probably be
ok).

Cheers,

-- 
Lucas
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