135371 – revdep-rebuild does not manage command line arguement list limit

Bug 135371 - revdep-rebuild does not manage command line arguement list limit

Summary: revdep-rebuild does not manage command line arguement list limit

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 38751

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Tools (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage Tools Team

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Reported:	2006-06-03 04:09 UTC by Joel Wiramu Pauling
Modified:	2006-06-03 04:14 UTC (History)
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Description Joel Wiramu Pauling 2006-06-03 04:09:34 UTC

Hi all,

This is a major bug in revdep-rebuild, basically for system with lots of bad dependencies the argument list that is built by revdep-rebuild becomes too long and breaks everything. The solution is to not pass stuff as a command line argument, but store it in an array/temporary file.

In my case it happens when stuff get's passed to fgrep.

This may or may not be related to the bug:38751

i,e

/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)

Assigning files to ebuilds.../usr/bin/revdep-rebuild: line 567: /bin/fgrep: Argument list too long
 done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds)

Evaluating package order... done.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-03 04:14:22 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 38751 ***