Subject: Re: [vserver] Hashify and exclude
From: Jim Wight <j.k.wight@ncl.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:41:58 +0100

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 21:47 +0200, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> Also, remember that a specific exclude list will
> override the default in /usr/lib*/util-vserver/defaults/vunify-exclude,
> so if you want identical results with just that one file changed, you
> should base your file on that.

Ah, that was information I was missing.

After a bit of trial and error, and using the following 

+/etc/gconf
+/etc/gconf/schemas
/etc/gconf/*

from the default exclude file as guidance I've found that specifying

+/var/qmail
+/var/qmail/bin
+/var/qmail/bin/sendmail
/var/*

- I had to change /var to /var/* - has given me output which indicates
that /var/qmail/bin/sendmail would be the only additional file to be
unified.

Now I'm struggling to get the whole of /var/qmail/bin unified. With the
sendmail line removed, /var/qmail/bin would be skipped, as it would if
+/var/qmail/bin/* were specified. What would be the magic to
get /var/qmail/bin unified? These are the differences I get in both
cases over the case with the default file alone:

<   skipping '/var'
---
>   skipping '/var/gdm'
>   skipping '/var/nis'
>   skipping '/var/racoon'
>   skipping '/var/tmp'
>   skipping '/var/empty'
>   skipping '/var/local'
>   skipping '/var/account'
>   skipping '/var/db'
>   skipping '/var/www'
>   skipping '/var/cfengine'
>   skipping '/var/preserve'
>   skipping '/var/lib'
>   skipping '/var/cvs'
>   skipping '/var/yp'
>   skipping '/var/run'
>   skipping '/var/opt'
>   skipping '/var/log'
>   skipping '/var/lock'
>   skipping '/var/mail'
>   skipping '/var/games'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/man'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/boot'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/alias'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-clean'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qreceipt'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/bouncesaying'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/sendmail'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-showctl'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-newmrh'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/splogger'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-lspawn'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-start'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/preline'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-rspawn'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qmtpd'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/forward'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpto'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qmqpd'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qail'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-remote'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-local'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pw2u'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-send'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qsmhook'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/pinq'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/condredirect'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/datemail'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/maildirwatch'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/predate'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-getpw'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qbiff'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/tcp-env'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/except'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpok'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/maildir2mbox'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qmqpc'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/elq'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/mailsubj'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/rc'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/control'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/users'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/doc'
>   skipping '/var/qmail/queue'
>   skipping '/var/spool'
>   skipping '/var/cache'

What is the argument against unifying everything? Files that are the
same will be unified, those that aren't won't, and unified files that
become different will have their links broken.

Jim