[gpsd-dev] Draft Stratum 1 Microserver HOWTO is up

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Tue, 24 May 2016 17:09:27 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> > Yeah, since you took so long to get to my email.  :-)  
> 
> That's not really funny, and actually pisses me off a little.  I "took
> so long to get to your email" because I was working my ass off
> answering 10e6 other emails. If our positions were reversed, would you
> like being snarked at for having already done something I had asked
> for?

Sorry, no offense intended.  I did put a smiley on it.

Going forward I'll assume you are saving the best to the last.  :-)

> I have way too much to do, and I'm feeling frustrated and stressed out
> because I can't seem to reduce my mailbox backlog no matter how hard I
> try. Have some consideration, please.

OTOH, you can look at as a sign of respect for you and your work.

Good thing there is a long weekend coming up.  Maybe button this thing up
before then, start fresh on something else next Tuesday.

> > A common case, but not definitive.  Why do you avoid directly
> > telling the user to check df and mount commands?  
> 
> Because I'd have to go off on a longish detour explaining how to read
> them. I'll do that if anybody points me at a case of silent
> automount, but I don't yet believe that happens.  Can you point me at
> that happening?

It happened to me with headless Ubuntu.  But that is not a common enough
case to document.  For now I'll acept that your script detects the
disk not already mounted.

> > But not a big deal either way.  I was in a space contrained
> > environment so it mattered to me.  
> 
> Hm. That's a good point.  Now I have to decide which case I should
> optimize for. Your way is better if the builder is only going to use 
> the image once, but mine avoids the unzip overhead entirely on second 
> and subsequent uses.

If it is not obviously better, then it can clearly wait.  I don't
encourage bike-shedding.

> Maybe I'm too influenced by having to do a lot of ddimage runs to
> the test farm machines. I shall meditate on this.

The Zen of Linux, much to ponder, but also work to be done.

Feel free to skip it.

> > Ah, OK.  Maybe we can get it in all gpsd buids soon?  :-)  
> 
> I'm thinking about forcing -n when the command line has one or more 
> devices on it.

Works for me.

RGDS
GARY
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