Package: debhelper Version: 9.20150101 Severity: normal I'm building packages using cowbuilder/pbuilder. Recently I also do this for armhf using qemu. There it happens, that I run into problems with dh_fixperms and dh_md5sums for packages with lots of files. e.g. one package contains about 1459 files, wich makes an argument list of about 140kB. `xargs --show-limits` reports:
Your environment variables take up 6150 bytes POSIX upper limit on argument length (this system): 2088954 POSIX smallest allowable upper limit on argument length (all systems): 4096 Maximum length of command we could actually use: 2082804 Size of command buffer we are actually using: 131072 ....and dh_md5sums causes a "/usr/bin/xargs: md5sum: Argument list too long" To be honest, I couldn't figure out, why this only happens for my armhf builds and not for i386 and amd64. `xargs --show-limits` reports always the same values. But I think at least the xarg-calls for md5sum and chown should be replaced with something safer like "xargs -r0 -L10 md5sum" to avoid trouble with packages containing a lot of files. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.25-5 ii dpkg 1.17.25 ii dpkg-dev 1.17.25 ii file 1:5.22+15-2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.25 ii man-db 2.7.0.2-5 ii perl 5.20.2-3 ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu3 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 1.20140617 -- no debconf information
