[master] Use parallel instead of xargs

Brian C. Lane bcl at redhat.com
Wed Jul 23 15:57:09 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:35:55AM -0400, David Shea wrote:
> On 07/23/2014 10:35 AM, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
> >parallel is a nice utility that can save us a lot of work when running tests in
> >parallel. By using parallel we can drop things like creating temporary files
> >with the outputs and failure-flaging.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime at redhat.com>
> >---
> >
> 
> parallel seems to have some quirks of its own, but in all I like this
> approach a lot better than xargs. Ack.

The script should have a test for the presence of the package and fail
gracefully. xargs is generally (at least on the systems I have)
installed, but parallel is not.

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