On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 02:17:48PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 09:29:50PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > Hi Niko, and pkg-perl, > > > > Since this the only significant blocker now, I'd like to try and get it > > wrapped up one way or another. I've built libapache2-mod-perl2 with the > > attached patch today, and run request-tracker4 with mod_perl happily on > > it, with perl 5.12 and 5.14. > > I assume this is on i386?
Yup. > > If I understand things correctly from the > > above, you think this should be okay, for Debian if not for upstream (it > > wasn't obvious to me) but wanted additional verification. Since we haven't > > had any response to that specific point, either negative or positive, I > > think it's probably time to give it a try - it's unlikely to be worse > > than not having libapache2-mod-perl2 installable. > > Yes, I agree it's definitely worth trying. Many thanks for pushing this. > > I'm not sure if it's cleaner to patch away all the related functions > (strip_lfs() and has_large_files_conflict()) like you do, or just stop > calling them. Your approach is probably safer as it makes sure nobody > else uses them. You might want to stick in a comment pointing to the > Debian bug in the patched versions, though, so that anybody reading > through the code in the binary package is aware that we're patching it. Yeah, good point. > A note about this on the upstream list would also be appropriate IMO. > The discussion there didn't really get far but I think other distributions > are hitting this too. (What's Fedora doing BTW? I think they're shipping > with 5.14 now.) A quick look at <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/source/SRPMS/mod_perl-2.0.5-5.fc16.src.rpm> suggests that they aren't patching for this issue; and having spun up a FC16 VM, the reason becomes clear; they aren't compiling with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org