Re: coreutils-8.2 bug-fix-only release coming soon

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:

[...]

>> Regarding ‘chgrp/basic’, the test finds groups='30000 65534'.  However,
>> 65534 corresponds to ‘nogroup’.  (The build process runs under a special
>> user, typically:
>>
>>   $ id nixbld1
>>   uid=30001(nixbld1) gid=65534(nogroup) groups=30000(nixbld),65534(nogroup)
>
> It looks like there is something different
> about NixOS, since normally when a user U is a member
> of a group G, and U runs "chown U:G file", that command succeeds.

This has now been fixed in NixOS by having build users belong to the
‘nixbld’ group and no supplementary groups.

The test suite passes on GNU/Linux but not on Darwin where a couple of
tests fail [0]:

  http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/coreutils-master/all

A Coreutils “view” is available at:

  http://hydra.nixos.org/view/gnu/coreutils-master

Successful builds yield a page containing the tarball, NixOS binaries (I
can add Debian, Fedora, etc. if need be), the manual in PDF/HTML, and a
code coverage report.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

[0] http://hydra.nixos.org/build/197442