xargs (environment too large), set and rcS_fai

[Jan de Groot]

On Friday 08 November 2002 15:59, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I applied your little patch now, it works and I haven't seen any other
> changes...
>
> > basically you only need to export a function if you want to call this
> > function from a subprocess; at least in our setup, this never happens.
> >
> > The only other way to circumvent this problem would be to to patch the
> > kernel for increasing the environment size...
>
> So why isn't this applied to FAI upstream ? The way it is, some packages
> are unable to install. If your patch would be applied, only some hooks
> (which are not part of FAI) woulnd't work as usual but hooks are for
> advanced users anyway so they could be informed in a README.
>
> > c u
> > henning
>
> ciao,
> 	Holger

I don't agree with you hooks are for advanced users. FAI is for advanced 
users, and hooks are needed for almost every setup.