Re: Handling Multi-Arch packages that must be installed for every enabled architecture?

2016-06-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
pendency here. Instead of adding another Multi-Arch value, how about adding 'Recommends: Y:every' to Y?  (This also moves the problem up from dpkg to APT.) Ben. > Any ideas on how to solve this problem? -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Updating dpkg in squeeze-lts

2015-05-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 16:52 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2015-05-01 at 13:24:56 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-05-01 at 05:51 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > Although I cannot fetch from the repo: > > > > > > ,--- > > > $ git

Re: Updating dpkg in squeeze-lts

2015-05-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2015-05-01 at 05:51 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 01:11:33 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 07:10 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > > I'd prefer if you merged and released the tarball, then I can do the > > r

Re: Updating dpkg in squeeze-lts

2015-04-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 07:10 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 01:53:16 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I've prepared an update to dpkg in squeeze-lts to fix CVE-2015-0840. As > > it's a native package, I'd like to check some points w

Updating dpkg in squeeze-lts

2015-04-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
happy to pull from my git branch, or should I send one or multiple patches? git repository: http://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb?p=dpkg.git;a=summary http://git.decadent.org.uk/git/dpkg.git packages: https://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/squeeze-lts/ Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not

Re: Correct way of providing uncompressed data.tar

2013-12-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
-c1 data.tar > /tmp/data.tar.gz real0m2.557s user0m2.528s sys 0m0.028s $ ls -l data.tar /tmp/data.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 ben ben 77352960 Dec 18 04:10 data.tar -rw-rw 1 ben ben 77310312 Dec 18 04:11 /tmp/data.tar.gz It seems there's enough zero-padding in the tar headers that g

Bug#617299: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 07:51 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > 2012/7/13 Ben Hutchings : [...] > If I disable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO again just before building, the kernel > indeed is MUCH smaller (I had probably forgotten to disable it before > attempting a new build; sorry for the confu

Bug#617299: dpkg-deb: should give a hint when it fails due to filling /tmp

2012-07-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
; Or do you mean that the size of the kernel -dbg packages is > > ridiculous? > > I mean that the size of the kernel package produced by 'make deb-pkg' > from the 3.2 vanilla tree, even after disabling debug symbols, is > highly suspicious,

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 07:57 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 10:49:23PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > But it's worse than this: even if dpkg decompresses before comparing, > > debsums won't (and mustn't, for backward compatibility). So it'

Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

2012-02-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
ns aside), where it does not > match then dpkg cannot deem that the files conflict without creating a > checksum based on the decompressed content of the two files. [...] But it's worse than this: even if dpkg decompresses before comparing, debsums won't (and mustn't, f

Re: The fsync issue

2010-11-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 07:59 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi Ben! > > On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 13:31:20 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Just got this from Christoph Helwig: > > > > 13:23 < hch> bwh: if you guys are interested in helping dpkg review and ack >

The fsync issue

2010-11-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
I know ext4 fsync isn't stellar, but the numbers sounds so bad that there must be a bug somewhere The patch referred to is in <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/44628>. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to im

Re: Pre-approval request for dpkg sync() changes for squeeze

2010-11-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
uld make that the default? Is there anything > else the dpkg developers can try to be portable and still not be > sacrificing performance? I'm coming to this late. It sounds like dpkg has changed its behaviour several times recently. Please can you summarise dpkg's current and pr

reassign 497304 to dpkg, forcibly merging 68788 497304

2008-08-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.29~bpo40+1 reassign 497304 dpkg forcemerge 68788 497304 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]