Bug#402179: tar: FTBFS: race condition in test-suite

2007-01-08 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 02:46:42PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: As I've stated before, I'm not sure that fixing this bug for etch is really useful. Of course, if there's a reason to update the tar in etch for a security bug or something similar, fixing this too would make good sense. But

Bug#402179: tar: FTBFS: race condition in test-suite

2007-01-08 Thread Andreas Barth
* Kurt Roeckx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070108 19:35]: Anyway, the only reason I see that we want to fix it in etch now is that in case we later want a new version of tar in etch we don't get hit by the problem. If I look at the stats, it doesn't seem too probably to be hit by it, and a simple

Bug#402179: tar: FTBFS: race condition in test-suite

2007-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 402179 important user debian-release@lists.debian.org usertag 402179 rc-m68k thanks On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:39:46PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Kurt Roeckx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070108 19:35]: Anyway, the only reason I see that we want to fix it in etch now is that in case we

Bug#402179: tar: FTBFS: race condition in test-suite

2007-01-07 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 17:26 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Hi, What's the status of this bug? There's a patch available form upstream for some time now. Would you mind I did an NMU for this? I'm working on 1.16.1 for unstable. Are you contemplating an NMU for unstable or etch? Bdale --

Bug#402179: tar: FTBFS: race condition in test-suite

2007-01-07 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 11:06:33AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 17:26 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: Hi, What's the status of this bug? There's a patch available form upstream for some time now. Would you mind I did an NMU for this? I'm working on 1.16.1 for

Bug#402179: tar: FTBFS: race condition in test-suite

2007-01-07 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 19:13 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I was planning on getting it into etch. As I've stated before, I'm not sure that fixing this bug for etch is really useful. Of course, if there's a reason to update the tar in etch for a security bug or something similar, fixing this too

Bug#402179: tar: FTBFS: race condition in test-suite

2007-01-06 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, What's the status of this bug? There's a patch available form upstream for some time now. Would you mind I did an NMU for this? Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#402179: tar: FTBFS: race condition in test-suite

2006-12-13 Thread Anthony Towns
This bug seems to only occur for the posix format tar archives. It's repeatable outside the tar test suite by doing: #!/bin/sh export TAR_OPTIONS=-H posix --pax-option=exthdr.name=%d/PaxHeaders/%f echo hello file1 echo goodbye file2 while :; do tar cf archive.1 file1 file2 tar cfT

Bug#402179: tar: FTBFS: race condition in test-suite

2006-12-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: tar Version: 1.16-2 Severity: serious Hello Bdale, tar test-suite tests/append02.at has a race condition which cause the test to fail sometimes, and thus the package to FTBFS. echo Creating archive.1 tar cf archive.1 file1 file2 here echo Creating archive.2 tar cfT archive.2