Old fakeroot bug on F7 onwards - where to download from

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi!

Fedora 7, 8 and 9 are shipping a version of fakeroot that is affected
by a somewhat nasty race condition.

The bug was characterised here
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381016 , and with
trivial repo steps here
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446351 . This bug was
fixed in 1.8.2 - F7,8,9 ship 1.6.4.

Hopefully, F9/F8 can get an updated version of the package included.
Help and pointers welcome :-) If that's not possible, I will prepare a
package for the school server and offer it here.

To Clint  - looking for a link to the latest version to grace this
email, I cannot find a source package or a tagged package anywhere.
The most recent release I can see on Debian is 1.9.5 on Lenny and
1.9.6 on Sid, but there are no upstream tarballs on Alioth. Fakeroot
is useful on many platforms - is it possible to arrange for publishing
the tarballs somewhere?

cheers,



m
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[Axel Thimm]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 09:35:49PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>  Fedora 7, 8 and 9 are shipping a version of fakeroot that is
> affected
>  by a somewhat nasty race condition.
>  
>  The bug was characterised here
>  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381016 , and with
>  trivial repo steps here
>  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446351 . This bug was
>  fixed in 1.8.2 - F7,8,9 ship 1.6.4.
>  
>  Hopefully, F9/F8 can get an updated version of the package included.
>  Help and pointers welcome :-) If that's not possible, I will prepare a
>  package for the school server and offer it here. 
It sure is possible, I'll look into updating the packages for >= F8.

BTW were in the schook server project are you using it? Just curious. :)

>  To Clint  - looking for a link to the latest version to grace this
>  email, I cannot find a source package or a tagged package anywhere.
>  The most recent release I can see on Debian is 1.9.5 on Lenny and
>  1.9.6 on Sid, but there are no upstream tarballs on Alioth. Fakeroot
>  is useful on many platforms - is it possible to arrange for publishing
>  the tarballs somewhere? 
I use the tarballs on
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/

For example for the latest fakeroot you can pick

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.9.6.tar.gz
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

[Martin Langhoff]

2008/8/3 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)atrpms.net&gt;:
>  It sure is possible, I'll look into updating the packages for
> >= F8. 
Oh fantastic! Thanks!

>  BTW were in the schook server project are you using it? Just curious.
> :) 
In combination with rsync, on a package called "xs-rsync". The laptops
get their OS updates from the school server (aka XS) via
"olpc-update", a wrapper around rsync. Which means that even things
like /dev get rsynced. Naturally, I don't want to have various "/dev"
directories with real device nodes on the XS. And of course rsync runs
as an unpriv user, so publishing root owned files needs fakeroot.

There is a bit more detail in the README:
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/martin/xs-rsync.git;a=blob;f=README;h=9...

and you can see the scripts too in that git repo. For each OS version
I keep a "state file" with all the ownerships and special nodes. rsync
runs always under fakeroot, with a readonly state file that is a
combination of all the per-os-version statefile. I learned this trick
from seeing a similar thing done by Scott for OLPC's update.laptop.org
- and I will probably use this trick more in the future.

I am finishing and packaging xs-rsync at the moment, but I spent all
saturday chasing down this bug in all the wrong places - and only woke
up this morning with thinking of waipid and faked.

>  I use the tarballs on
>  http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/
>
>  For example for the latest fakeroot you can pick
>
>  http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.9.6.tar.gz 
Ah, good one - I could only think of trying apt-get source, which I am
happy to myself, but not appropriate for a Fedora build toolchain ;-)
-

thanks for the help!



m
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 martin.langhoff(a)gmail.com
 martin(a)laptop.org -- School Server Architect
 - ask interesting questions
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
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[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 10:55:58PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>  2008/8/3 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)atrpms.net&gt;:
>  > It sure is possible, I'll look into updating the packages for >= F8.
>  
>  Oh fantastic! Thanks! 
The packages are in updates-testing (or will be once the master
recollects them). I built them on Sunday, but the approval takes a
while:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/pending/fakeroot-1.9.6-16.fc9
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/pending/fakeroot-1.9.6-16.fc8

If you need it on F7, you can rpmbuild --rebuild from the
src.rpm. There are no new depencies that would make this package not
work on F7.

Thanks for chasing that bug!
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