tag 493184 pending thanks Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Package: aufs > Version: 0+20080719-1 > Severity: serious > Tags: patch > > Hi jak, > > as you probably already know, there is a quite inconvenient bug in > sid+lenny's aufs, which is blocking renames, caused by deadlocks. That > means that one can't update the apt cache through apt-get/aptitude, at > the very least (it's not like rename() is something very rare anyway), > which IMHO makes it unfit for a stable release. I know it, and I just waited until aufs migrated to testing. I just had no time to upload it yet. > > For more details, initial upstream bugreport: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems.aufs.user/1270 > > The patch as provided by upstream: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems.aufs.user/1291 > > The thread contains various confirmations that the patch does its job > and fixes the deadlocks. I personally tested it against a custom > snapshot I prepared: 20080714 (I didn't know 20080719 would follow some > days later, and I was checking whether the bug got fixed in the > meanwhile), but also with 0+20080719-1, against which I attach a > debdiff, so that you can eventually merge the patch quickly. Actually, the package is 20080714, I just checked it out on 20080719.
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> I kept the patch as is, only adapting the patch level. Feel free to
> drop/adapt attribution lines in the patch/the changelog, nothing fancy
> in preparing an upload. More precisely: I needed to do so to prepare
> some (better-working) LiveCD images.
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> Cheers,
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