Austin S. Hemmelgarn

@slytomcat A move operation isn't atomic (that is, it can fail half-way through), and it becomes a copy-then-delete if the source and destination aren't on the same filesystem. The point...

@slytomcat Actually, other things can cause a rename(2) call to fail (even non-permissions related things on some filesystems). It is admittedly still supposed to be atomic (at least, on UNIX...

This would not actually eliminate the need to have install specific instructions for paths, just make it less likely that the user has to deal with a non-default case in...

> > should be /usr/local/sbin, not /usr/local/bin > > Then regular users (not root) won't be able to find/execute them. Regular users shouldn’t be trying to execute them. The claiming...

@netdata/agent-sre Expected behavior here is as described in the original post, except that the symlink for `/etc/netdata` should _only_ be manipulated if it does not already exist.

Did a bit of digging WRT this, and I’ve run into an issue. TLDR: We need CMake 3.18 to do this cleanly, which means we either have to wait for...

> > Bump the CMake minimum required version to 3.18 now and add some extra complexity to CI and the package builders to support this. > > I vote for...

@ktsaou Just making sure I understand this: You want us to make it _easier_ for people who do not have experience dealing with building things by hand to build and...

> > @ktsaou Just making sure I understand this: You want us to make it _easier_ for people who do not have experience dealing with building things by hand to...

@kickoke Actually, I havne’t opened one for _this_ yet, the one you probably saw is adding documentation for how to build the packages using our own package build infrastructure for...