Bug#844041: nvidia-cuda-toolkit: does not build when using eatmydata and overlayfs (cannot create /dev/tty)

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi Santiago,

On 09/02/2017 11.36, Santiago Vila wrote:
> retitle 844041 nvidia-cuda-toolkit: does not build when using eatmydata and overlayfs (cannot create /dev/tty)

> I can reproduce this again (see attach), when using both eatmydata and overlayfs.
> 
> I think overlayfs is to blame here. It is certainly not a bug when a
> package fails to build because of this, but in several cases (for example,
> an unorthodox orig tarball which does not have directory entries), the
> failure can be avoided in the affected package without waiting for
> this to be fixed in the kernel.
> 
> So I think this would still make sense as a wishlist, just in case
> somebody finds a workaround. I'm using a different title to reflect
> this, and I'm also removing the "FTBFS" thing, because this is not a
> real FTBFS bug.

is this still an issue 6 years later?

Andreas