497154 – Portage (or sys-libs/glibc ebuild) needs to warn user if FEATURES=fakeroot and glibc has been updated

Bug 497154 - Portage (or sys-libs/glibc ebuild) needs to warn user if FEATURES=fakeroot and glibc has been updated

Summary: Portage (or sys-libs/glibc ebuild) needs to warn user if FEATURES=fakeroot an...

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Sandbox Maintainers

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Reported:	2014-01-05 16:56 UTC by Andreas K. Hüttel
Modified:	2014-01-05 18:37 UTC (History)
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Description Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2014-01-05 16:56:12 UTC

from the fakeroot man page: "Every command executed within fakeroot needs to be linked to the same version of the C library as fakeroot itself."

glibc was recently updated, and I have FEATURES=fakeroot set, which may explain why I am suddenly unable to complete emerge -eav world (random hangs without cpu usage).

testing now with FEATURES=-fakeroot set

(another possible cause for the hangs might be bug 487558)

given the manpage, my suggestion would be that
* either the sys-libs/glibc ebuild outputs a fat warning on update if FEATURES=fakeroot is set
* or that portage detects a glibc update and warns

Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2014-01-05 18:37:17 UTC

(In reply to Andreas K. Hüttel from comment #0)
>
> glibc was recently updated, and I have FEATURES=fakeroot set, which may
> explain why I am suddenly unable to complete emerge -eav world (random hangs
> without cpu usage).
> 
> testing now with FEATURES=-fakeroot set
> 

actually the hangs seem to be unrelated to fakeroot. :( 

doesn't change the thing about the manpage instructions, but the issue is probably not so serious. 

I'm closing the bug, reopen if you still want to act on it.