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

[Jim Meyering]

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> 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.
>
> This has now been fixed in NixOS by having build users belong to the
> ‘nixbld’ group and no supplementary groups.
>
> The test suite passes on GNU/Linux

Great!
Is there a way I can be notified of each change in pass/fail state?
At worst I'll set up something RSS-based.

> but not on Darwin where a couple of tests fail [0]:

Thanks, maybe we'll find someone willing to invest in Darwin.
I'm not terribly concerned.

>   http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/coreutils-master/all
>
> A Coreutils “view” is available at:
>
>   http://hydra.nixos.org/view/gnu/coreutils-master
>
> Successful builds yield a page containing the tarball, NixOS binaries (I
> can add Debian, Fedora, etc. if need be), the manual in PDF/HTML, and a
> code coverage report.