On Wed 29 Nov 2006 01:39, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > 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.
Thanks Petr and Aurelien! Kostas
