From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25800 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2012 20:11:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 25777 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Oct 2012 20:11:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (208.118.235.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:11:40 +0000 Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJVI7-0000yf-Go; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:11:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:11:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) To: Jan Kratochvil CC: eliz@gnu.org, Paul_Koning@Dell.com, gdb@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20121003184340.GB16194@host2.jankratochvil.net> (message from Jan Kratochvil on Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:43:40 +0200) Subject: Re: Using Py_SetPythonHome Reply-to: ams@gnu.org References: <20120921153645.GD5439@adacore.com> <20120921154345.GA30615@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20120921155758.GE5439@adacore.com> <20120921172735.GA4341@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20121002130854.GL30746@adacore.com> <20121003151244.GA22734@host2.jankratochvil.net> <20121003153854.GC13994@adacore.com> <20121003175343.GA14317@host2.jankratochvil.net> <83vcer8ku6.fsf@gnu.org> <20121003184340.GB16194@host2.jankratochvil.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-10/txt/msg00035.txt.bz2 > > > There do not exist any multi-user systems anymore. Each > > > developer has her own virtual machine (in fact many of them), > > > therefore sure with root access and with proper normal > > > automatic package management there. > > > > That is not true. > > Of course, it isn't. Example: fencepost.gnu.org. I hope you do not mean this seriously. I understand there still exist some such systems but they are a relict needing to be replaced. And at least from the systems around me (not just Red Hat) they already have been replaced. I work at a place where we have 100+ multi-user systems per machine (and hundreds of machines) that have no plans on being replaced, more like extended and expanded; we recently finished a migration from i386 boxen to x86_64 boxen, switching OS (to RHEL from SuSE) and other stuff. Relocation is a dream of anyone who futzes with special deliviers for weirdo platforms; even plain old GNU/Linux boxen. The right solution would sure be if I could just 'git pull' an update to the assignments database/files. Setting up a simple cronjob to copy copyright into a vcs repo that you pull from fp is quite trivial. I have a small Makefile that copies copyright.list (amongst other things) to my latop, and commits it to VCS. If you want, I can bundle up that script for you. Cheers!