Bug 197757 – app-admin/fam removal request

• Status: RESOLVED LATER
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-11-01 10:44:41 UTC]

If someone requires this functionality, they can use app-admin/gamin, which - unlike FAM - has actually alive upstream and is a much better implementation.

Nothing in the tree

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-11-01 10:45:33 UTC]

Bleh, the comment got truncated.

Nothing in the tree requires app-admin/fam, all ebuilds have been switched to virtual/fam.

[Comment 2 Arthur Hagen 2007-11-01 13:29:06 UTC]

gamin (and inotify for that matter) is local -- fam works over RPC, and is pretty much a MUST if using an NFS mounted INBOX (or multiple simultaneous remote X logins with NFS mounted home dirs).
gamin is a great alternative for LOCAL workstations, but as long as there's no networked alternative to SGI fam, I think it must stay.  Are there known bugs since 'has alive upstream' is an issue?

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-11-01 14:25:28 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> fam works over RPC, and is pretty much a MUST if using an NFS mounted INBOX 

Eh, beyond the fact that even getting it to work is a small miracle, it's a nifty security loophole, personally wouldn't call this a feature. :P Locally-initiated modifications of the NFS files work just fine w/ gamin, remote ones - no they don't, really couldn't care less personally, see above.

> Are there known bugs since 'has alive upstream' is an issue?

Yeah, there are tons of issues that noone gives a damn about... as said, upstream is dead... See http://tinyurl.com/2qu357

Notably the 'lets eat 100% CPU' [1] and 'cannot unmount any removable media' [2] "features" make fam completely unusable for me.

[1] http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158
[2] http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=392

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-12-26 10:33:12 UTC]

foser retired...

[Comment 5 svrmarty 2008-03-25 21:14:01 UTC]

[blocks B     ] app-admin/fam (is blocking app-admin/gamin-0.1.9)
[blocks B     ] app-admin/gamin (is blocking app-admin/fam-2.7.0-r4)


i get this every time, when i upgrade e.g. gnome

[Comment 6 Hans de Graaff 2008-03-26 05:35:43 UTC]

Unmerging fam should fix that

[Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2008-05-27 13:13:45 UTC]

I vote we close this as RESOLVED, LATER. While I do prefer gamin, last I checked fam worked fine too (I'm using them for Thunar so it can update files realtime)

[Comment 8 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2008-05-27 14:08:57 UTC]

Hmm, I have fam installed here but haven't /knowingly/ used it. Since it hasn't caused a problem for me, I agree with drac, leave it for now.

[Comment 9 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2008-09-12 14:58:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I vote we close this as RESOLVED, LATER. While I do prefer gamin, last I
> checked fam worked fine too (I'm using them for Thunar so it can update files
> realtime)
> 

RESO; LATER