[arch-dev-public] [signoff] fakeroot 1.12.2-1

[Allan McRae]

Dan McGee wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de> wrote:
>   
>> Am Sonntag 08 März 2009 schrieb Andreas Radke:
>>     
>>> This is a minor update to 1.12.2 - the major change I've done is the
>>> switch to --with-ipc=tcp communication way that should solve some
>>> issues that have come up with recent kde builds. please test if you can
>>> still build all your other stuff with it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Attention: Please also take care off all packages that install files
>>> with setuid bit set. Take a look at
>>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13444 !
>>>
>>> I could not track down where the issue is and the upstream Debian
>>> developer can't reproduce it while Tpowa and some other could. Only
>>> x86_64 is affected and sometimes files with setuid set don't get that
>>> permission when the pkg gets installed.
>>>
>>> -Andy
>>>
>>>
>>> upstream changelog:
>>>
>>>  fakeroot  (1.12.2) unstable; urgency=low
>>>
>>>    * Replace and (hopefully) fix broken alpha stat version hack in
>>>      fts_read.
>>>
>>>  -- Clint Adams <schizo at debian.org>  Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:17:31 -0500
>>>       
>> no signoff, i can'T build kernel and syslog-ng anymore,
>> somehow it creates zombie processes on my system, downgrading to core fakeroot
>> solved the issue.
>>     
>
> Completely broken. I can't even make it through a build without
> fakeroot hanging and having to kill -9 the makepkg process.
>   

Me too.  I guess it is best to wait for the next pacman release to fix 
this as building can then be done outside the fakeroot.

Allan