guix/gnu/packages/patches/tar-skip-unreliable-tests.patch
Ludovic Courtès d3b4c1358c gnu: tar: Skip tests that rely on undefined unlinkat(2) behavior.
Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/20597>.
Reported by Andrew Patterson <ajpatter@uwaterloo.ca>.

* gnu/packages/patches/tar-skip-unreliable-tests.patch: New file.
* gnu/packages/base.scm (tar)[source](patches): Add it.
* gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
2015-06-16 00:27:27 +02:00

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Skip tests that rely on unlinkat(2) behavior that varies between
kernel versions and is unspecified.
See <http://bugs.gnu.org/20597>
and <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2015-06/msg00000.html>.
--- tar-1.28/tests/testsuite 2014-07-27 22:35:27.000000000 +0200
+++ tar-1.28/tests/testsuite 2015-06-16 00:21:16.906380739 +0200
@@ -34680,6 +34680,7 @@ find .
)"
at_fn_check_prepare_notrace 'an embedded newline' "remfiles08a.at:31"
( $at_check_trace;
+exit 77
mkdir gnu
(cd gnu
TEST_TAR_FORMAT=gnu
@@ -34762,6 +34763,7 @@ find .
)"
at_fn_check_prepare_notrace 'an embedded newline' "remfiles08b.at:36"
( $at_check_trace;
+exit 77
mkdir gnu
(cd gnu
TEST_TAR_FORMAT=gnu
@@ -34850,6 +34852,7 @@ find .
)"
at_fn_check_prepare_notrace 'a `...` command substitution' "remfiles08c.at:31"
( $at_check_trace;
+exit 77
mkdir gnu
(cd gnu
TEST_TAR_FORMAT=gnu