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Coreutils test failure on Btrfs

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: "Collin J. Doering" <collin <at> rekahsoft.ca>
Subject: bug#74203: closed (Re: bug#74203: [PATCH] gnu: coreutils: Disable
 cp/reflink-auto.sh as it can fail on btrfs)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:33:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#74203: Coreutils test failure on Btrfs

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

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 74203 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: "Collin J. Doering" <collin <at> rekahsoft.ca>
Cc: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>, 74203-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#74203: [PATCH] gnu: coreutils: Disable cp/reflink-auto.sh
 as it can fail on btrfs
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:32:40 +0100

Hi Collin,

"Collin J. Doering" <collin <at> rekahsoft.ca> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/base.scm: Similarly to
> nix (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/190211), disable
> tests/cp/reflink-auto.sh test as it can fail on btrfs. This was discovered by
> the cuirass.genenetwork.org build farm.
>
> Change-Id: If1cc3d516c5807e580ec64ab93670e30090581a7

Finally applied, thanks!

Ludo’.

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From: "Collin J. Doering" <collin <at> rekahsoft.ca>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: coreutils fails to build
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:37:53 -0500

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Hi lovely maintainers of Guix!

Some time ago I announced the availability of a guix build farm running out of the University of Tennessee[1]. Some time ago, builds started failing due to a failure to build coreutils[2]; investigation showed a unexpected failing test:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
FAIL tests/cp/reflink-auto.sh (exit status: 1)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I found that on other guix systems, this is not occurring. After some online sleuthing, it appears that the nix folks have seen this before[3]. They opted to disable the test 'tests/cp/reflink-auto.sh' as it can fail when using btrfs. On the guix system impacted, disabling coreutils tests makes the package build.

For reference, coreutils was building on cuirass.genenetwork.org on guix commit `0c908518375aea50be6dec703367c01944c8c721` and stopped building on `66611696975409a52478b95a862a464daeaefe2a`.

I suggest we follow what the nix folks did (disable `tests/cp/reflink-auto.sh`). In a following email you will find a patch that does so, however, because it changes coreutils, this will cause many packages to be rebuilt, so I'm unsure whats the best way to correct this without having to wait for core-updates to be merged.

Any advise or insight appreciated.

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-07/msg00033.html
[2]: https://cuirass.genenetwork.org/eval/157119/log/raw
[3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/190211

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