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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Jim,

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>> 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
>
> Great!
> Is there a way I can be notified of each change in pass/fail state?

Yes, by email.  Hydra email notification has been improved recently:

  - Notifications are only sent when the package’s status changes from
    SUCCEEDED to FAILED and vice versa.

  - Messages for failed builds include the last 50 lines of the build
    log.

Other than that, they look like those found here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/build-inetutils/2010-01/threads.html

The Inetutils folks created a ‘build-inetutils’ mailing list to receive
such messages.  Perhaps something similar could be done for Coreutils?

Or we can use ‘bug-coreutils’ for that purpose and make sure it doesn’t
flood the list.

Thanks,
Ludo’.