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Re: Well this is truely bizaar



On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:21:00 +0000
David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com> wrote:

> When I try to emsource -b --build-dep gnupg normally I get a 
> So I added some, and in the process forgot when I booted to use
> an old kernel what had madwifi built for it, and so used one that had
> no network connectivity.
> 
> It compiled cleanly, well nearly, it failed near the end with a problem
> to do with udebs, but it got cleanly through the configure, and kept
> going until it tried to so a dpkg-gencontrol on gpgv-udeb which is
> "not in control".

The udebs were removed from the original patches but after discussions
at Fosdem, I have begun to re-enable the udebs in builds. GnuPG is the
most recent package to have the udebs re-enabled.

> So I built madwifi for the later kernel, just in case it was just the memory
> increase that had cured things, but it still failed.  So I stopped the
> wifi connection and unloaded the madwifi modules, and it worked!!!
> Still the same udeb problem, but the configure worked.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea why building this offline and building it
> online should be different?

1. The extra memory cured the problem with ./configure

2. Updates to the patches solved the udeb problems.

My guess anyway.

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Neil Williams
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