Bug#661799: FTBFS

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:09:14 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > And now I built it (from git) on a fast amd64 machine (so far I tried
> > only old i386 boxen) -- and now it builds - ?!
> I can reproduce it easily by putting some load on the build host
> during the test suite. Just a "find /" in another window triggers
> it for me.

I didn't have such luck today, not even on my Openmoko Freerunner :)
 
> The problem is in parsing the output of the 'cvs' command, which
> sometimes comes in chunks of incomplete lines.
[..]
> Patch attached, this fixes it for me.

Thanks! Impressive.
 
> BTW, I wonder why is the test suite run under fakeroot (in the 'install'
> target).

The packaging has more historical value in several places :) 


Cheers,
gre "package uploaded" gor

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