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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Jim,

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> FWIW the Hydra build farm at TU Deflt[*] now continuously builds
>> Coreutils from Git using Gnulib from Git[+]:
>>
>>   http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/coreutils-master
>>   http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/coreutils-master/all
>
> Nice!
> Thanks for setting that up.
> It should be very useful to us.

Cool.  :-)

>> Currently 6 of 355 tests fail on GNU/Linux (this could be due to file
>> system layout assumptions that do not hold on NixOS.)
>
> I looked at the chown/separator failure, but a possibly-easy
> diagnosis was thwarted by the absence of the usual "set -x" output.
> I discovered that that was due to a new bug, fixed by the following patch.

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

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)

)

Subsequent failures (e.g., ‘chown/separator’) seem to have the same
root.

Thanks,
Ludo’.