Re: [ECFT] pkgng 0.1-alpha1: a replacement for pkg_install

From: Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:15:58 +0000
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>> At this time I'd just like to suggest you add the use of WAL journal
>> (http://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_journal_mode) on database creation
>> so you get the benefits of multiple-readers-single-writer concurrency model.
> It sounds like a good idea. I'll add WAL support and if no problem
> arise from that we should keep it.

Despite the fact that WAL allows cool things, one disadvantage is that
the process require write privileges on the database file even if it
is only reading.
Thus, pkg info and things like that would need to be run as root...

Regards,
Julien
Received on Sat Mar 26 2011 - 10:16:00 UTC

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