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and subject line Re: Bug#493080: devscripts: Error relating to nested fakeroot
session should be silently ignored
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regarding [debuild] Ignore nested fakeroot errors
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Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.34
Severity: normal
If the debuild script is invoked from within a fakeroot environment, an
error occurs, and the script aborts:
fakeroot: nested operation not yet supported
I suspect that this error should be silently ignored from within the
script, allowing operation to continue.
(Maybe there should be a switch to fakeroot which could be used
to prevent the error from occuring if an attempt is made to create a fakeroot
environment from an already fakeroot environment, or maybe the error
should just not occur.)
-- Package-specific info:
--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---
--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-486
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.20 Debian package development tools
ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii perl 5.10.0-11.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii at 3.1.10.1 Delayed job execution and batch pr
ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
ii dctrl-tools 2.13.0 Command-line tools to process Debi
ii debian-keyring 2008.07.22 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D
ii debian-maintainers 1.41 GPG keys of Debian maintainers
ii dillo [www-browser 0.8.6-3 Small and fast web browser
ii dput 0.9.2.32 Debian package upload tool
ii equivs 2.0.7-0.1 Circumvent Debian package dependen
ii fakeroot 1.9.5 Gives a fake root environment
ii gnupg 1.4.9-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii iceape-browser [ww 1.1.11-1 Iceape Navigator (Internet browser
ii libauthen-sasl-per 2.12-1 Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication
ii libcrypt-ssleay-pe 0.57-1+b1 Support for https protocol in LWP
ii libparse-debcontro 2.005-2 Easy OO parsing of Debian control-
ii libsoap-lite-perl 0.710.08-1 Client and server side SOAP implem
ii libterm-size-perl 0.2-4+b1 Perl extension for retrieving term
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii libwww-perl 5.813-1 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.05-1 Fast, lightweight YAML loader and
ii lintian 1.24.2 Debian package checker
ii lsb-release 3.2-15 Linux Standard Base version report
ii man-db 2.5.2-2 on-line manual pager
ii openssh-client [ss 1:5.1p1-1 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii patch 2.5.9-5 Apply a diff file to an original
ii patchutils 0.2.31-4 Utilities to work with patches
ii strace 4.5.15-1.2 A system call tracer
ii subversion 1.5.0dfsg1-4 Advanced version control system
ii unzip 5.52-11 De-archiver for .zip files
ii wdiff 0.5-18 Compares two files word by word
ii wget 1.11.4-1 retrieves files from the web
Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii build-essential 11.3 informational list of build-essent
pn cvs-buildpackage <none> (no description available)
pn devscripts-el <none> (no description available)
pn gnuplot <none> (no description available)
pn libfile-desktopentry-per <none> (no description available)
pn libnet-smtp-ssl-perl <none> (no description available)
ii mutt 1.5.13-1.1etch1 text-based mailreader supporting M
pn svn-buildpackage <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
Mark Hobley wrote, Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:10 AM
If the debuild script is invoked from within a fakeroot environment, an
error occurs, and the script aborts:
fakeroot: nested operation not yet supported
I suspect that this error should be silently ignored from within the
script, allowing operation to continue.
Unfortunately the error isn't ignorable - fakeroot simply won't work in a
"nested" manner. Even if debuild could ignore the error, dpkg-buildpackage
will then fail for the same reason; I'm therefore closing this bug.
(Maybe there should be a switch to fakeroot which could be used
to prevent the error from occuring if an attempt is made to create a
fakeroot
environment from an already fakeroot environment, or maybe the error
should just not occur.)
It appears nested fakeroots were disabled a little over a year ago, in
fakeroot 1.6.3; as I understand it this was because a number of operations
don't work correctly when nested.
There's already an open bug against fakeroot relating to nesting and
possible ways of modifying fakeroot to aleviate them - #409856.
Regards,
Adam
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