Re: [Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.31] testsuite: 124 failed

[Chris Clayton]

On 03/01/2019 16:33, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> On 01/03/2019 04:42 AM, Chris Clayton wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm building tar-1.31 on a homebrew system that is based on (Beyond)
>> Linux From Scratch. It is very stable even though
>> it is frequently ahead of LFS in terms of installed package
>> versions.
> 
> tar is not in BLFS and BLFS is not ahead of LFS.  Both are released at the 
> same time.

Sorry, a bit imprecise with my statement there. "It" refers to my system, which 
is sometimes ahead of LFS/BLFS.
Additionally, I have applications installed that I don't think are in (B)LFS  - 
MATE desktop for example. It is however,
very stable indeed.

> 
>> I am building with the latest snapshot of gcc-8.
>>
>> Please let me know if I there is any other information you need or
>> can  help in any other way (e.g. test fixes).
>>
>> Chris Clayton
> 
> On my reference LFS system I get:
> 
> 208 tests were successful.
> 21 tests were skipped.
> 
>  15: compress: lzip                       skipped (compress-lzip.at:28)
>  16: compress: lzop                       skipped (compress-lzop.at:28)
>  17: compress: zstd                       skipped (compress-zstd.at:28)
>  82: extracting symlinks to a read-only dir  skipped (extrac07.at:30)
>  84: extracting even when . and .. are unreadable    skipped (extrac09.at:37)
>  90: extract parent mkdir failure         skipped (extrac15.at:28)
>  96: delay-directory-restore              skipped (extrac21.at:33)
> 109: incremental dump when the parent directory is unreadable skipped 
> (listed03.at:27)
> 131: ignfail                              skipped (ignfail.at:26)
> 150: volumes split at an extended header  skipped (multiv07.at:31)
> 160: listing sparse files bigger than 2^33 B  skipped (sparse05.at:31)
> 176: volume header size                   skipped (volsize.at:32)
> 184: remove-files with compression        skipped (remfiles01.at:32)
> 216: selinux: basic store/restore         skipped (selnx01.at:28)
> 217: acls/selinux: special files & fifos  skipped (selacl01.at:28)
> 224: gtarfail                             skipped (gtarfail.at:26)
> 225: gtarfail2                            skipped (gtarfail2.at:26)
> 226: multi-fail                           skipped (multi-fail.at:26)
> 227: ustar-big-2g                         skipped (ustar-big-2g.at:26)
> 228: ustar-big-8g                         skipped (ustar-big-8g.at:26)
> 229: pax-big-10g                          skipped (pax-big-10g.at:26)
> 
> Note that we normally build tar as root.
> 

I'll try that although my normal practice is to build everything (including 
earlier versions of tar) as an non-root user.

> There were no failures.  Some skips are due to missing dependencies, but that 
> is acceptable.
> 
>   -- Bruce Dubbs
>      linuxfromscratch.org