Bug#396835: kernel package bug and kpathsea (was: Bug#396835: tetex-bin postinst take unlimited amount of time and ram (kpsewhich took 600M and 14h))

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 06.12.06 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:

Hi,

> > This symlink is an absolute reference to the source tree on the
> > builder's machine.  How could that possibly be useful on anyone else's
> > random machine?  If it were a symlink to /usr/src/linux* that would be
> > a different story.  Note that the binary package deletes the symlink
> > on installation (search for "source" in
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image*.postinst); it would be better IMHO if
> > it were deleted at the end of the build.
> 
> I agree.  However, before submitting a bugreport I'd like to know
> whether this problem still exists.  Does anyone have a linux source
> and kernel-package installed in a sid environment?
> 
I do. Or say better I can prepare the box. What should I do?

H.
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