Re: next release version of findutils?

[Kamil Dudka]

On Thursday, August 9, 2018 5:09:51 PM CEST Karl Nordström wrote:
> Hi Kamil, hi Bernhard,
> 
> thank you for the response and your input.
> 
> I played around with the git clone yesterday when I tried to understand
> what went wrong. Conda has a bias towards release versions with static
> URLs though, but with the help of your inputs I think I'm quite close to
> something satisfactory.
> 
> In the end I borrowed most of the patches from Fedora (Is there a good
> way to reference/cite them?) and worked around the quirks of the build
> systems.

The cgit URLs that contain hash of the commit object in them are known to be
persistent, for example:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/findutils.git/tree/findutils-4.6.0-mbrtowc-tests.patch?id=97ba2d7a

(just replace findutils-4.6.0-mbrtowc-tests.patch in the URL by name of any
file that is currently in the master branch)

Kamil

> When the new version comes out I will update the conda recipe.
> 
> Again, thank you for your help.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Karl
> 
> On 09.08.2018 08:40, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 9, 2018 8:30:39 AM CEST Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> >> On 08/08/2018 09:49 AM, Karl Nordström wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> I wanted to ask whether there is a new release for findutils comming up?
> >>> 
> >>> I want to add it to conda-forge and am having trouble passing make
> >>> check. Partly perhaps due to inexperience, but I think some of the tests
> >>> have been updated since 4.6.0. I think one such example is mbrtowc:
> >>> 
> >>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=1f63650823cebf520
> >>> 44
> >>> df840c81062ccb52163a2
> >>> 
> >>> The build system is very bare-bones and I'm also having problems with
> >>> strftime and the 'ahistorical' tests. Here I haven't delved as deep.
> >>> 
> >>> Currently I lean towards skipping the tests. Would you be terribly
> >>> opposed to that?
> >>> 
> >>> Best,
> >>> 
> >>> Karl
> >> 
> >> Hi Karl,
> >> 
> >> indeed, a new cut of the GNU findutils is overdue: we have already 187
> >> commits since v4.6.0 which was released around Xmas 2015.
> >> I have a few things open on my side, but then need to find some time to
> >> do
> >> the release together with James.
> >> 
> >> Re. the tests: in that situation, I'd try to skip the gnulib tests,
> >> and only let the find/xargs tests run.  Or you can try with a new
> >> snapshot
> >> tarball created with './bootstrap && ./configure && make all dist' from a
> >> git clone.
> > 
> > ... or just pick the upstream commit(s) to make the test-suite pass again,
> > as we do in Fedora:
> > 
> > https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/findutils.git/commit?id=3f5b9b5d
> > 
> > Kamil
> > 
> >> Have a nice day,
> >> Berny