On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 01:16:58PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Bug 295175, the grave xfree86-common bug that was blocking many > autobuilds has now had its fix uploaded to the archive. > > Unfortunately, the xfree86 build with the fix is failing, and looking > at the build logs, I think it's because the buildd chroots are still > corrupted with the damage that the buggy package did.
Well, the damage is in part the package's fault, and in part (apparently) dpkg's -- if you do a --purge of an installed package, the package does not pass through the "removed ok conffiles-only" stage. Instead, despite the package payload being removed, the package is marked as still being installed, which is where all this grief comes from. > We need the buildd maintainers to all clean the chroots by hand Yes, but... > (perhaps it would be best to just rebuild them from scratch), I don't think that's necessary. Just apply the attached patch[1] in /var/lib/dpkg/info. > and then reschedule builds of xfree86. That part's necessary too. :) > Regardless of exactly what the correct procedure is, is there someone > who is taking the lead of making sure all this happens? More than a > few packages have gotten stalled by the corrupted chroots on the > buildd's causing spurious build failures and it needs by-hand work to > correct each one. Steve Langasek has been working with me and some of the buildd admins on this via IRC, but it is good to give this cleanup procedure broader exposure. [1] also available at <URL: http://redwald.deadbeast.net/tmp/xfree86-common_postrm_buildd_fix.diff > -- G. Branden Robinson | The software said it required Debian GNU/Linux | Windows 3.1 or better, so I [EMAIL PROTECTED] | installed Linux. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
--- xfree86-common.postrm~ 2004-02-17 18:20:44.000000000 -0500
+++ xfree86-common.postrm 2005-02-19 14:07:19.323055852 -0500
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@
if [ "$1" = "purge" ]; then
- update-rc.d "$THIS_PACKAGE" remove
+ update-rc.d "$THIS_PACKAGE" >/dev/null remove
for DIR in /etc/X11/Xresources /etc/X11/Xsession.d /etc/X11; do
rmdir "$DIR" 2> /dev/null || true
done
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