[Libosinfo] [PATCH] rhel: Specify resources for all RHEL 6 releases

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Sat Dec 29 18:14:54 UTC 2012


On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
>> NACK, this only addresses half of the review comments.
>
> Can you please explain 1207959552 is not 1GB? Do you happen to mean
> 1000000000? The reason the term 'GiB' exists is because while GB might
> mean 1000000000, its almost always misused to mean 1207959552. If
> thats what you meant, Why do you want to use that value when you
> yourself are saying that its less accurate? Also why is it so
> important to use the less accurate value that these patches have to be
> NACKed for it?

I got all the answers after I found out that my `bc` alias (to `bc
-l`) isn't there anymore so it was reporting:

$ bc
1207959552 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024
1

I'll resend with correction.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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