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On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 09:59:51AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/21/18 9:46 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >Matt asked if xz should really be a filter rather than a plugin. The > >answer is yes, of course it should be! That's been something in the > >todo file for a while. > > > >The commit converts the xz plugin code into a filter (leaving the >

...are useful). Let's say you have an XZ file with a 100,000 byte block size. Then reading two blocks at 0-1000 and 1000-2000 would result in reading and uncompressing a whole block twice. The block cache in the xz plugin/filter avoids this; the cache on top does not. Interesting factoid: www.mirrorsite.org rapidly throttles any connection that makes repeated range requests ... However if you open a new connection it is unaffected by the throttling on the existing connection (I thought it would throttle based on IP address). Anyway this, combined with the large block size in the Fedora Cloud im...

Hello, for my SGI Indy with IRIX 5.3 I want to download the binary packages for Samba 1.9.18p10. But I couldn't! I use different mirrorsites without success. Only message "Waiting for reply ..." and nothing more. With the version for IRIX 6.x is the same but with "samba53.18p8.tardist" there are no problems! Any comments? Hartmut

...by it, does it? > > Most of the other build systems work, see > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=r-base > The most recent hppa error looks spurious and related to Build-Depends. I just reproduced the hang on a standard pbuilder setup: after installing pbuilder and editing MIRRORSITE in /etc/pbuilderrc to your liking and setting DISTRIBUTION to sid, you should just be able to run pbuilder create, then "pbuilder build r-base_*.dsc 2>&1|tee build-log". This reproduced the bug for me. (I'm not sure whether pbuilder is actually required, but I didn't fee...