summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/scripts
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorSam Thursfield <sam.thursfield@codethink.co.uk>2014-07-04 18:20:16 +0100
committerSam Thursfield <sam.thursfield@codethink.co.uk>2014-07-04 18:20:16 +0100
commit103e708d47fbf8a72205af81679ed599de0d393b (patch)
tree9fe8672815bac1419e88ddb51c5e1599b07f23db /scripts
parent68f6ef230e78ac33fe23fe4ab0236ee6550b1113 (diff)
downloaddefinitions-103e708d47fbf8a72205af81679ed599de0d393b.tar.gz
do-release: Explain why xargs is not used in a comment
This was suggested by Richard Maw and I forgot to fix up the branch 'sam/auto-release' before merging it.
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rw-r--r--scripts/do-release.py5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/do-release.py b/scripts/do-release.py
index 239e7085..e8efe814 100644
--- a/scripts/do-release.py
+++ b/scripts/do-release.py
@@ -472,7 +472,10 @@ class Upload(object):
supports a simple batching mechanism to avoid hitting ARG_MAX. It'd
be a better solution to extend morph-cache-server to allow receiving
the artifacts. This would require adding some kind of authentication to
- its API, though.
+ its API, though. Note that using xargs and sending the list of files
+ over stdin isn't a perfect solution (although perhaps better than the
+ current one) because Busybox's 'mv' doesn't support the '-t' option,
+ making it very awkward to use with 'xargs'.
'''