[Mageia-dev] urpmi segfaults on the build system (was Re: Our BS is about to eat packages?)

[Pascal Terjan]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
> Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
>>> Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> writes:
>>>> jonund was seeing plenty urpmi segv's today...
>>>
>>> Yep, there is still at least one remaining issue in perl-URPM, that can
>>> be reproduced by just installing texlive-texmf IIRC.
>>>
>>> pterjan and tv have (probably) been discussing this off-list.
>>> Any news about this?
>>
>> I have committed a change which should avoid it, but was interrupted
>> by perl breakage in cauldron
>> There is new perl-URPM in cauldron and 2/updates_testing, but I need
>> to upload a new urpmi too
>
> The urpmi change seems to be just a workaround, don't we have a better
> fix to do in perl-URPM?

Yes (or maybe in perl) but valgrind is still segfaulting in cauldron
so I preferred avoiding the segfault without waiting for a proper
debugging of the issue