On Feb 21, 2012, at 3:40 AM, Pino Toscano wrote: > Hi, > > (greetings from your favourite Hurd porter) > > Alle lunedì 13 febbraio 2012, Tim Kientzle ha scritto: >> So on hurd, I see a couple of interesting failures for bsdtar: >> [...] > > Actually, libarchive is pretty fine on Hurd, as it was after I fixed > libarchove 3.0.2 (and in 3.0.3 there are no changes leading to issues). > > The problem is that the test suite run (just like the whole package > build) is done within fakeroot (which means fakeroot-tcp), triggering > Debian's #534879.
Thanks, Pino. Libarchive's test suite does a lot of file operations, including a lot of cross-checks of file modes, ownership, and other properties. The races described in #534789 would likely manifest as essentially random failures in libarchive's test suite. Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
