Bug#396835: tetex-bin postinst take unlimited amount of time and ram (kpsewhich took 600M and 14h)
Hi all,
what should we do about this bug?
Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:23:15PM +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>
>> > echo $HOME
>>
>> /home/hrw/
>
> That's not: $HOME should not have a trailing slash.
Should this be documented somewhere more clearly? Or can we just assume
a sane setting, at least for the TeX packages?
>> > > and here it start to go through filesystem and loops in kernel build
>> > > due to symlinks:
>> [...]
>>
>> > Then again, symlink loops like this are just plain evil.
>>
>> Blame kernel-package?
>>
>> 12:58 hrw@work:hrw$ pwd
>> /home/hrw
>> 12:58 hrw@work:hrw$ ll src/linux/debian/linux-image-2.6.19-rc5/lib/modules/2.6.19-rc5/source
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 hrw pavilon 19 2006-11-10 15:51 src/linux/debian/linux-image-2.6.19-rc5/lib/modules/2.6.19-rc5/source -> /home/hrw/src/linux
>
> I see. kernel-package places a symlink from source to the source of
> the tree. That's weird, I guess. Maybe worth filing a bug against
> kernel-package?
I'm not sure think this is a bug. If I understood the directory
structure correctly, this is a built tree under debian/<packagename>,
ready to be packaged into a deb file. So if the symlink is supposed to
be there, it's correct that it is circular in this unpacked version.
The only question is whether it makes sense at all to have a symlink to
the sources in a package, without the package containing the source (or
depending on a source package). By the way, I don't have it here in
kernels from backports.org.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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