Subject: bug#11023: coreutils-8.15.74-be17e3: testsuite failures on NetBSD

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 10:23:05 -0600

close 11023
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 16/03/12 10:54 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>>
>> On NetBSD 5.1:
>>
>>    FAIL: rm/inaccessible
>>    FAIL: misc/date
>>    FAIL: misc/printf-cov
>>    FAIL: misc/sort-discrim
>>    FAIL: cp/preserve-slink-time
>>    FAIL: dd/sparse
>>    FAIL: du/inaccessible-cwd
>>    FAIL: du/long-from-unreadable
>>    FAIL: ls/block-size
>>    FAIL: ls/stat-failed
>>    FAIL: tail-2/pipe-f2
>>    FAIL: touch/not-owner
>>
> Thanks for testing and reporting the results.
> 
> Unfortunately, from what I recall of NetBSD 5.x failures for the last few
> coreutils releases, it had problems that seemed numerous and fundamental
> enough that it wasn't worthwhile trying to address them.
> 

Coreutils on NetBSD is slowly improving.
This bug is old enough to be closed.

If further NetBSD bugs appear, please do send to [email-masked] .

regards,
  - assaf