Petr Salinger a écrit : > Hi. > >> I was about to report this in the BTS but I'm a bit confused about which >> package is responsible. The problem is that in kfreebsd-kernel-headers >> (=0.22) >> and the kfreebsd-5 source, <sys/syslimits.h> has conflicting definitions of >> ARG_MAX. In kfreebsd-kernel-headers the value is 262144 while in the kernel >> package there is the patch 905_grow_arg_max.diff which raises ARG_MAX to >> 131072. Both are pretty high but I know of at least one case where this is a >> problem: >> kdepim is FTBFS again because when dh_fixperms runs for kdepim-doc it fails >> with "xargs: chown: Argument list too long". >> >> So, this is the problem, but what is the solution? I'm a bit mixed up on >> which >> source packages are responsible in this case. > > Some history: > > Plain FreeBSD 5.x have had limit 64 KB, it have been too low, > so it have been raised in kfreebsd-5 package to 128 KB. > > Plain FreeBSD 6.x have limit 256 KB in general, 64 KB for arm and powerpc. > It is again adjusted in kfreebsd-6 package, > the limit is 256 KB in general, 128 KB for arm and powerpc. > > Current kfreebsd-kernel-headers is based on kfreebsd-6, > so on both i386 and amd64 it is 256 KB. > > IMHO reasonable long term solutions are > > a) raise limit in kfreebsd-5 package to match limits in kfreebsd-6, > build it, upload it, install on buildd machine > > b) install on buildd machine a kfreebsd-6 package > and declare kfreebsd-5 deprecated > > Short term solution for kdepim is to requeue it > on a buildd running 6.x kernel with enough memory.
I have implemented b), because the only buildd that was running a 6.x kernel has no swap and is not able to build kdepim... I have requeued all packages, so kdepim should be built now. Bye, Aurelien -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
