Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-9.2.18-ffd62.tar.xz

[Sam James]

Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> writes:

> Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> writes:
>
>> We plan to release coreutils-9.3 in the coming week
>> so any testing you can do on various different systems
>> between now and then would be most welcome.
>> This is a bug fix release coming about 3 weeks after the 9.2 release.
>>
>> --------------------------------------
>>
>> You can download the coreutils snapshot in xz format (5.7 MB) from:
>>     https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz
>>
>> And verify with gpg or md5sum with:
>>     https://pixelbeat.org/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
>>     MD5 (coreutils-ss.tar.xz) = d208d306026fb42c128a787dffcba17a
>>
>> --------------------------------------
>>
>> To test follow this standard procedure:
>>
>>     tar -xf coreutils-ss.tar.xz
>>     cd coreutils-9.2.18-ffd62/
>>     ./configure && make check VERBOSE=yes
>>
>> Failures are reported, and details are in tests/test-suite.log
>> Please report/attach any issues to coreutils@gnu.org
>>
>
> I get one failure in tests/cp/backup-dir.sh inside our packaging:

I see now you've caught this as a non-portable shell construct & fixed -
thanks! So ignore this one, and see the failures below instead.
> ```
> + env cp --version
> [...]
> FAIL tests/cp/backup-dir.sh (exit status: 1)
> ```

These I can naturally still hit:
>
> In another environment (same machine but this time running manually,
> outside of our packaging, and on a ZFS filesystem instead of tmpfs),
> I get two failures:
>
> 1. tests/cp/sparse-2.sh.log: http://sprunge.us/jOCSEr (unfortunately I
> can't consistently reproduce this one)
>
> 2. ./tests/misc/tty-eof.log: http://sprunge.us/yWNByM
>
> best,
> sam

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