Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Aaron Wilson <tallest@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] id in coreutils7
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:27:54
Message-Id: F47B3955-E4E3-4D29-A6E8-A80B28707474@gmail.com
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-alt] id in coreutils7 by Steven Parkes
1 I've been having the same problems.
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3 I was unable to bootstrap my machine until I masked >=coreutils-7.0.
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5 Aaron
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8 On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Steven Parkes wrote:
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10 >> Yea, there have been conflicting reports of coreutils status. For
11 >> example, http://bugs.gentoo.org/264007 - but other people can't
12 >> reproduce it.
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14 > Hmmm not sure why people can't reproduce, unless it's a new bug in
15 > Darwin, because it's definitely a bug in Darwin. I added the details
16 > to the ticket.
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18 > I don't know the approach to patching such things. Does prefix
19 > maintain patches for OS bug workarounds? I know there are patches.
20 > Including this kind of thing?
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22 > There are a few possible ways to work around the bug. I put the
23 > details in the ticket. Happy to contribute the code ...
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25 >