Bug 592500

Summary:	Review Request: libeatmydata - Disable fsync() and friends
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Zing <zing>
Component:	Package Review	Assignee:	Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	contribs, dave.love, fedora-package-review, notting, rudd-o
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Description Zing 2010-05-15 01:39:02 UTC

Spec URL: http://shishz.fedorapeople.org/libeatmydata.spec
SRPM URL: http://shishz.fedorapeople.org/libeatmydata-15-1.fc12.src.rpm

Description:
LD_PRELOAD library that disables all forms of writing data safely to
disk. fsync() becomes a NO-OP, O_SYNC is removed etc. The idea is to
use in testing to get faster test runs where real durability is not
required.

DO NOT use libeatmydata on software where you care about what it stores.
It's called libEAT-MY-DATA for a reason.

Comment 1 Jason Tibbitts 2010-11-19 17:54:01 UTC

I think there's a newer upstream release available.

Here's the rpmlint output; you should provide this yourself when submitting packages:

  libeatmydata.x86_64: E: no-ldconfig-symlink /usr/lib64/libeatmydata.so.1.0
Not sure how problematic this is, honestly.

  libeatmydata.x86_64: W: shared-lib-calls-exit
   /usr/lib64/libeatmydata.so.1.0 _exit.5
Generally libraries shouldn't call exit.  Especially this one.  Any idea why it does so?

  libeatmydata.x86_64: W: no-manual-page-for-binary eatmydata
It's nice to have manual pages but not essential.

  libeatmydata-debuginfo.x86_64: E: debuginfo-without-sources
This indicates something wrong with the build process, either because something strips them or because the compiler flags aren't correct.  In this case, it's the compiler flags.  You need to somehow make the package build process use %{optflags} (or $RPM_OPT_FLAGS; they're the same).

Comment 2 Zing 2010-12-07 03:54:22 UTC

Although I submitted this, if anyone wants to pick this up and maintain this for fedora, they are welcome to.

Comment 3 Rudd-O DragonFear 2012-07-17 01:35:09 UTC

Will someone pick this up?

Comment 4 Rudd-O DragonFear 2012-07-17 01:57:47 UTC

I have a better and upstream-up-to-date spec file

https://gist.github.com/3126484

De nada.

Comment 5 Dave Love 2015-01-23 16:58:37 UTC

For what it's worth, there's a currently-current srpm with several updates at
https://loveshack.fedorapeople.org/copr/libeatmydata-105-1.el6.src.rpm
and a copr build under http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/loveshack/livhpc