[Mageia-dev] urpmi segfaults on the build system (was Re: Our BS is about to eat packages?)

Fri Aug 24 13:53:53 CEST 2012

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
+> Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> writes:
+>
+>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
+>>> Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> writes:
+>>>> jonund was seeing plenty urpmi segv's today...
+>>>
+>>> Yep, there is still at least one remaining issue in perl-URPM, that can
+>>> be reproduced by just installing texlive-texmf IIRC.
+>>>
+>>> pterjan and tv have (probably) been discussing this off-list.
+>>> Any news about this?
+>>
+>> I have committed a change which should avoid it, but was interrupted
+>> by perl breakage in cauldron
+>> There is new perl-URPM in cauldron and 2/updates_testing, but I need
+>> to upload a new urpmi too
+>
+> The urpmi change seems to be just a workaround, don't we have a better
+> fix to do in perl-URPM?
+
+Yes (or maybe in perl) but valgrind is still segfaulting in cauldron
+so I preferred avoiding the segfault without waiting for a proper
+debugging of the issue
+