gnu: tar: Disable troublesome tests on the Hurd.

The sparse03.at test apparently freezes the Hurd; messages
on the console:

165: listing sparse files bigger than 2^33

ext2fs: device:hd0s1: warning: bit already cleared for block 245780
ext2fs: device:hd0s1: warning: bit already cleared for block 245781
ext2fs: device:hd0s1: warning: bit already cleared for block 245782
...
ext2fs: BUG: unexpected fault on disk image ... err 0xa
ext2fs: disk-pager.c:98: fault_handler: Assertion 'err' failed.

the other tests just fail.

* gnu/packages/base.scm (tar)[arguments]: When compiling for the Hurd,
skip `sparse' and failing tests.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index 9041d99b65..31563bab5c 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -171,7 +171,22 @@ implementation offers several extensions over the standard utility.")
    (build-system gnu-build-system)
    ;; Note: test suite requires ~1GiB of disk space.
    (arguments
-    `(#:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
+    `(,@(if (hurd-target?)
+            '(#:make-flags
+              (list (string-append
+                     "TESTSUITEFLAGS= -k '"
+                     "!sparse"
+                     ",!renamed dirs in incrementals"
+                     ",!--exclude-tag option in incremental pass"
+                     ",!incremental dumps with -C"
+                     ",!incremental dumps of nested directories"
+                     ",!incremental restores with -C"
+                     ",!concatenated incremental archives (renames)"
+                     ",!renamed directory containing subdirectories"
+                     ",!renamed subdirectories"
+                     "'")))
+            '())
+      #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
                  (add-before 'build 'set-shell-file-name
                    (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
                      ;; Do not use "/bin/sh" to run programs.