61644 – Possible solution for segfaulting emerge when using nss-mysql

Bug 61644 - Possible solution for segfaulting emerge when using nss-mysql

Summary: Possible solution for segfaulting emerge when using nss-mysql

Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

URL:	http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?i...
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Reported:	2004-08-25 08:19 UTC by Mathy Vanvoorden
Modified:	2004-09-08 23:03 UTC (History)
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Description Mathy Vanvoorden 2004-08-25 08:19:24 UTC

Hi,

As you can see in bug 7969 emerge has troubles when using nss-mysql (it is a bug in nss-mysql, I presume, but it only shows up in emerge during the unpacking, regular usage of tar works like a charm).

A possible workaround around this problem is adding --numeric-owner to $tarvars in ebuild.sh. This way, tar will not ask for the user info of the original creator of the tarball (which is were it borks because nss-mysql doesn't seem to answer quick enough). This even produces less overhead because it is one less lookup ;)

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-08 23:03:33 UTC

Portage queries this info as well. Also, we cannot assume some numbers.