From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: 28157@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28157: “r-minimal” retains no reference to “which”
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:38:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9r87xhx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760dgvu1a.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:19:45 +0200")
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> Right. In the case of R, the environment for a package is serialized to
> a possibly compressed data file (.Rdb) with an index (.Rdx).
> “Sys.which” is part of the “base” package and I cannot find a plain text
> reference to “bin/which” in the binaries for “base”.
Doh! That’s a problem. The GC won’t detect those references either,
which can lead to early-deletion problems.
> I don’t know if we can (or should) disable compression for Rdb files.
We’ll probably have to disable it. (According to ‘file’ it’s no a
standard compression format like gzip; maybe raw zlib without gzip
headers?)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-22 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-20 11:16 bug#28157: “r-minimal” retains no reference to “which” Ricardo Wurmus
2017-08-22 8:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-22 9:19 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-08-22 9:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-08-22 9:38 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-08-22 11:02 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-08-22 13:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-22 14:03 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-08-22 14:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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