Re: [Linux-diag-devel] Anybody home?

[Thomas Guyot-S. <de...@ae...>]

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Hi Lee,

On 2020-01-30 19:01, Lee Duncan wrote:
> On 1/30/20 9:40 AM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
>> I haven't seen a soul since I joined in November, but thanks for
>> reminding me that I wanted to suggest an init script for sysfsutils.
> What would it need to do at system startup time? Just curious.

Just to be sure, we're not talking of the same package; this SF project
has many subprojects/code repos.

Debian added an init script in their sysfsutils package to set sysfs
variables very similar to sysctl (in procps package). I have noticed it
is missing in other distros, and I believe it would be a good thing to
standardize on so application packagers could leverage /etc/sysfs.d/ to
add important system tunings.

> I tried to read from the CVS repo, which says it's read-only, but the
> repo kept asking me for a password, so that got nowhere.
>
> But I found  https://github.com/Distrotech/sysfsutils
>
> Is that unofficial?
It appears to be a private fork maintained by a South African company;
see http://www.mzanziopensource.co.za/
>
> Either way, I'd be glad to contribute. If the current git repo is close
> enough, we can fork it and start from there.
>
> If it is not good enough (it has no version tags, and apparently no
> support), we can use a tool (as you suggest) to import the CVS stuff and
> start from there.
>
> This stuff seems to still have plenty of value.
Yea... the tooling certainly improved... Subversion was notorious for
failing to import branches, primarily because those were free-form and
you could end up importing directories of branches. I haven't needed
branches on my cvs imports but since it's implemented natively it should
be easy.

Asides from that, Git normally has user name and email where CVS has
only user id's, so a table is needed for conversion (for the email,
<userid>@users.sourceforge.com generally works, and some users have made
their name public, there could be other sources else the name will be
only user id).

There's also the $Id$, $Author$ and similar tags. They need to be
cleaned up in headers, and if they are also used in the code such as for
generating version strings, they need to be replaced by something
git-specific (ex git-describe) and run as a dependency to the build process.

Regards,

Thomas
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