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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-09-11 23:15:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-09-11 23:16:37 +0200 |
| commit | 895067ff495a35768e1ba39e969eff3495b8cbc4 (patch) | |
| tree | d823a0b7c599dd8b62c05786724fdfbbb17254b5 /gnu | |
| parent | b86c013c68be640521b533e1dd40115e2cb72b40 (diff) | |
| download | patches-895067ff495a35768e1ba39e969eff3495b8cbc4.tar patches-895067ff495a35768e1ba39e969eff3495b8cbc4.tar.gz | |
gnu: coreutils: Skip racy 'tail' tests.
This works around <http://bugs.gnu.org/21460>.
* gnu/packages/patches/coreutils-racy-tail-test.patch: New file.
* gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
* gnu/packages/base.scm (coreutils): Use it.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/base.scm | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/patches/coreutils-racy-tail-test.patch | 13 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm index e2d4727c9c..f60a6cfeef 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm @@ -248,7 +248,9 @@ used to apply commands with arbitrarily long arguments.") version ".tar.xz")) (sha256 (base32 - "0w11jw3fb5sslf0f72kxy7llxgk1ia3a6bcw0c9kmvxrlj355mx2")))) + "0w11jw3fb5sslf0f72kxy7llxgk1ia3a6bcw0c9kmvxrlj355mx2")) + (patches + (list (search-patch "coreutils-racy-tail-test.patch"))))) (build-system gnu-build-system) (inputs `(("acl" ,acl) ; TODO: add SELinux ("gmp" ,gmp) ;bignums in 'expr', yay! diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/coreutils-racy-tail-test.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/coreutils-racy-tail-test.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..91640513e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/coreutils-racy-tail-test.patch @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Skip this test, which uncovers a race condition in how 'tail' handles +file deletion. See <http://bugs.gnu.org/21460>. + +--- a/tests/tail-2/assert.sh ++++ b/tests/tail-2/assert.sh +@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ + # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + ++exit 77 # see <http://bugs.gnu.org/21460> + + # This test fails with tail from textutils-2.0. + # It would get something like this: |