Hi!
This is a trivial package that is rather outdated, and the old version has a bug that is affecting me on the XS. I am not sure how responsive Axel Thimm ( the current packager of fakeroot) is - not much wrt fakeroot anyway :-) - see the email below...
If an updated version gets into F9 ( thanks to magic fairies :-) ) I can rebuild it for F7.
It is a bit awkward that Clint is not publishing the tagged tarballs (AFAICS!). Makes it hard to package an updated version. There is the tla sources :-/
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Langhoff martin.langhoff@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:35 PM Subject: Old fakeroot bug on F7 onwards - where to download from To: Development discussions related to Fedora fedora-devel-list@redhat.com, Clint Adams schizo@debian.org, Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net
Hi!
Fedora 7, 8 and 9 are shipping a version of fakeroot that is affected by a somewhat nasty race condition.
The bug was characterised here http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381016 , and with trivial repo steps here http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446351 . This bug was fixed in 1.8.2 - F7,8,9 ship 1.6.4.
Hopefully, F9/F8 can get an updated version of the package included. Help and pointers welcome :-) If that's not possible, I will prepare a package for the school server and offer it here.
To Clint - looking for a link to the latest version to grace this email, I cannot find a source package or a tagged package anywhere. The most recent release I can see on Debian is 1.9.5 on Lenny and 1.9.6 on Sid, but there are no upstream tarballs on Alioth. Fakeroot is useful on many platforms - is it possible to arrange for publishing the tarballs somewhere?
cheers,
m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff