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we've got a new QA check that warns whenever a package is built using a 32bit |
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filesystem interface. in practice, this applies to arm/mips/ppc/sh/x86 systems |
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(not including multilib -- for now). |
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this topic has come up in Gentoo a few times over the years but we've never |
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really amassed the will power to fix it. instead we fix it in one-offs based |
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on user reports (like "can't download 4GiB file with ftp" #101038). this was |
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worked well enough because most users have moved on to 64bit systems and the |
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interaction with >2GiB files tends to correlate with a few packages. |
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however, "recent" winds have started blowing where file systems are utilizing |
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64bit inodes to handle large file counts. this means apps that do even basic |
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things like stat() will now fail. the number of applications that this affects |
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is significantly higher, although still relegated to systems that happen to use |
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a file system with 64bit inodes. |
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since our QA warnings in portage have historically proven themselves to (1) get |
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users to generate bug reports and (2) get the warnings fixed (both here and in |
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upstream), there is now a QA check for this issue. the plan is to let this bake |
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in portage-9999 for a while before it gets kicked into ~arch and the flood gates |
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are unleashed. |
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more background details (including recipes for fixing the issue in your package) |
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can be found in the tracker: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/471102 |
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an example warning message: |
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* QA Notice: The following files were not built with LFS support: |
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* Please file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ and mark it as a blocker of 471102. |
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* See that tracker bug (https://bugs.gentoo.org/471102) for more details. |
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* fopen@@GLIBC_2.1 bin/route |
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* fopen@@GLIBC_2.1 bin/ifconfig |
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* fopen@@GLIBC_2.1 bin/hostname |
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* __fxstat@@GLIBC_2.0,open@@GLIBC_2.0,fopen@@GLIBC_2.1,readdir@@GLIBC_2.0 bin/netstat |
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* fopen@@GLIBC_2.1 sbin/nameif |
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* fopen@@GLIBC_2.1 sbin/ipmaddr |
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* fopen@@GLIBC_2.1 sbin/arp |
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* fopen@@GLIBC_2.1 sbin/iptunnel |
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* fopen@@GLIBC_2.1 sbin/rarp |
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* open@@GLIBC_2.0,creat@@GLIBC_2.0,fopen@@GLIBC_2.1 sbin/slattach |
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-mike |
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