Re: [2.6] Perl weirdness with ext3 and HTREE

[Patrick McLean <pmclean@linuxfreak.ca>]

It is possible to install gentoo in a subdir of your main box, just 
unzip the tarball
into that directory, then chroot to it and follow the rest of the steps 
for installation
(skipping kernel, bootloader, syslog, etc of course), then you can test 
stuff out by just chrooting to the gentoo dir, and doing "env-update ; 
source /etc/profile".

Christopher Li wrote:

>I can take a look at it.
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>Is there any way to reproduce this bug without installing the
>whole gentoo? It would be nice if I can just download some
>package to make it happen.
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>Thanks,
>
>Chris
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>On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 10:37:05PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
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>>Hi
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>>I have mailed about this previously, but back then it was not
>>really confirmed, so I have let it be at that.
>>
>>Anyhow, problem is that for some reason 2.5/2.6 ext3 with HTREE
>>support do not like what perl-5.8.0 does during installation.
>>It *seems* like one of the temporary files created during manpage
>>installation do not get unlinked properly, or gets into the
>>hash (this possible?) and cause issues.
>>
>>It seems to work flawless on 2.4 still.
>>
>>Also, to be honest, I do not have that much free time these days,
>>so if an interest in helping me/us debug this, it will be appreciated
>>if some direction in what is needed/suggestions can be given as to what
>>is required.  There are a few users that experience this issue, and
>>I am sure that we can get whatever info needed.
>>
>>A bug on our tracker is here with more (hopefully) complete info:
>>
>>  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24991
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>-- 
>>
>>Martin Schlemmer
>>
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