Re: coreutils-8.2 bug-fix-only release coming soon

[Jim Meyering]

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> The latest build has all the output:
> http://hydra.nixos.org/build/171993/log/raw .

Thanks for investigating.

> Regarding ‘chgrp/basic’, the test finds groups='30000 65534'.  However,
> 65534 corresponds to ‘nogroup’.  (The build process runs under a special
> user, typically:
>
>   $ id nixbld1
>   uid=30001(nixbld1) gid=65534(nogroup) groups=30000(nixbld),65534(nogroup)

It looks like there is something different
about NixOS, since normally when a user U is a member
of a group G, and U runs "chown U:G file", that command succeeds.

If it's some fundamentally unavoidable difference, we can always
arrange to skip all of those tests on NixOS.