[arch-dev-public] [signoff] fakeroot 1.12.2-2

Andreas Radke a.radke at arcor.de
Mon Mar 9 13:09:17 EDT 2009


Am Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:00:16 +1000
schrieb Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:

> 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
> 
> 

I reverted back to use sysv ipc and added the README file + install msg
about sysv/tcp usage.

Please signoff -2 release.

-Andy


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