Is 6.3 ready for release?

[Dan Nicholson]

On 7/30/07, Ken Moffat <ken at linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
>
>  To expand on what I posted earlier about test failures:
>
> Tar is repeatedly failing  '26: incremental' for me, looks like a
> regression.  But nobody else has commented.

This time I got all passes for tar. Go figure.

> The bash failure I reported was a fubar in my script (trying to
> chown the test log so it was writable by the appropriate user, but
> before it was created ;).  But, my second run did seem to have one
> failure - 'run-test' shows
>
>   152c152
>   < 1
>   ---
>   > 0
>   158c158
>   < 1
>   ---
>   > 0

I got those failures on a single run (using jhalfs). I'm not sure
what's causing the errors, but what's failing is `test -r /dev/fd/0'
and `test -r /dev/stdin' (look at tests/test.right for the output that
it's diffing to above).

So, I suspect this has something to do with the su to the nobody user
and how su handles these devices. But the last time I thought about
this it hurt my head. It may have something even more to do with how
our scripts are handling the user switching.

> The perl failure didn't happen on the second run, I guess it's just
> another unreliable test.

What was the exact perl failure?

> And the vim test failure is totally impenetrable.

One of the vim tests hung on me, and trying to decipher the output
only resulted in garbage in the terminal. I think I might just stop
running this thing.

--
Dan