On Thursday 21 June 2007 05:24:10 am Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 21.06.2007, 11:07 +0200 schrieb Daniel Leidert: > > Could you do me a favour and upload/send me your pbuilderrc file? I > > checked your base.tgz without finding a special difference. So I'm > > wondering, why the build(s) fail(s) for you, but work(s) for me. > > I tried to build libxml-simple-perl and slony1 in your base.tgz and it > works just fine. Both builds succeed. > > Regards, Daniel
I just did some more investigation, and I think I may have finally found out what's going on. Try creating a filesystem image from scratch to loopback mount and build in, and make sure it's an ext3 filesystem with the dir_index option enabled (which is the default for new filesystems created with mke2fs from sid, lenny, or etch). Either that or enable it on the current /var/cache/pbuildd partition with "tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/whatever" -- it's safe to do that even on a mounted filesystem. I'm guessing that's probably the relevant difference between our systems (and incidentally a new installation I created on another system here which also reproduced the bug). What I think is happening is: update-perl-sax-parsers seems to depend on the entries of /etc/perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.d to be in the order of creation. But with the dir_index option enabled, instead the hash of XML::SAX::PurePerl happens to be last, so that's what gets put last in /etc/perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini. And the last entry appears to be the one interpreted as the default. Which is just brain damaged -- even if it *could* depend on a certain filesystem order, that would mean whichever SAX parser package happens to get installed last gets to be the default. In a quick test, the order of parsers in my /etc/perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini is: XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser XML::LibXML::SAX XML::SAX::Expat XML::SAX::PurePerl Assuming you can reproduce the bugs with this additional information, I propose we fix the problem by assigning a priority to each parser and making update-perl-sax-parsers use priorities instead of the filesystem order. -- Daniel Schepler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
