From 103e708d47fbf8a72205af81679ed599de0d393b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sam Thursfield Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 18:20:16 +0100 Subject: 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. --- scripts/do-release.py | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'scripts') 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'. ''' -- cgit v1.2.1