Subject: bug#20597: closed (Re: bug#20597: GNU tar fails test suite)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 22:31:06 +0000

Your bug report

#20597: GNU tar fails test suite

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#20597: GNU tar fails test suite
From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andrew Patterson <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 00:30:41 +0200
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Andrew Patterson <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Failed tests:
> GNU tar 1.28 test suite test groups:
>
>  NUM: FILE-NAME:LINE     TEST-GROUP-NAME
>       KEYWORDS
>
>  161: remfiles08a.at:28  remove-files deleting two subdirs in -c/non-incr. mode
>       create remove-files remfiles08 remfiles08a
>  163: remfiles08c.at:28  remove-files deleting two subdirs in -r mode
>       create append remove-files remfiles08 remfiles08c

Commit d3b4c13 (in core-updates) skips these tests, as suggested at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2015-06/msg00001.html>.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Subject: GNU tar fails test suite
From: Andrew Patterson <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 03:23:50 -0400
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When trying to build tar using the installation medium, the build fails
when running the test suite.

The command given was:

guix build -K tar --no-substitutes

The testsuite.log is attached.