On 7/30/07, Greg Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > Tar is repeatedly failing '26: incremental' for me, looks like a > > regression. But nobody else has commented. > > I see this intermittently. I also see 29 failing intermittently too which > I reported upstream to no response:
Yeah, I've been seeing "incremental" as well as "sorted" failing on and off over the past couple releases (I think "sorted" might be fixed now). > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2007-07/msg00032.html > > In fact, the upstream list has various reports of both 26 and 29 failing. > Because they appear to be intermittent failures, I believe they are > probably timing related. It's possible these tests are missing sleep > statements in key areas (there are many sleep statements within the tar > testsuite). Seems pretty likely. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
