The Debian Project seems to have found a bug in the tar test suite. The bug appears to be a race condition in tests/append02.at
I could not find mention of the bug in the bug-tar archives at: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/ so I'm reporting it now! This patch makes the race loose consistently and the test will fail consistently. ---8<--- --- tests/append02.at.orig 2006-07-24 10:09:30.000000000 +0100 +++ tests/append02.at 2006-12-19 10:49:07.000000000 +0000 @@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ echo Creating archive.1 tar cf archive.1 file1 file2 +sleep 2 + echo Creating archive.2 tar cfT archive.2 /dev/null tar rf archive.2 file1 ---8<--- A full analisys by those more insightful than me is available at: http://bugs.debian.org/402179 I suspect that the Debian Project will just disable the test for the time being but I guess you GNU tar folks will want to fix the test! Regards Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
