tar: FTBFS: Failed tests

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 23:15:57 +0100 (CET)
From: Roland Stigge <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: tar: FTBFS: Failed tests

Package: tar
Version: 1.15.1-2
Severity: serious

Hi,

building the package tar in a clean sid build environment
(with pbuilder) on i386 results in:

=========================================================================
[...]
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1/tests'
/usr/bin/make genfile
make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1/tests'
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../lib -I../lib -I../src -O2 -g -Wall -MT genfile.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/genfile.Tpo" -c -o genfile.o genfile.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/genfile.Tpo" ".deps/genfile.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/genfile.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
gcc -O2 -g -Wall -o genfile genfile.o ../lib/libtar.a
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1/tests'
/usr/bin/make check-local
make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/tar-1.15.1/tests'
/bin/sh ./testsuite
## -------------------------- ##
## GNU tar 1.15.1 test suite. ##
## -------------------------- ##
  1: tar version ok
  2: decompressing from stdin FAILED (pipe.at:50)
  3: options ok
  4: append ok
  5: deleting a member after a big one ok
  6: deleting a member from stdin archive ok
  7: deleting members with long names ok
  8: deleting a large last member ok
  9: deleting non-existing member ok
 10: extract01 ok
 11: extracting symlinks over an existing file ok
 12: extraction loops ok
 13: extract + fnmatch ok
 14: extracting selected members from pax ok
 15: gzip ok
 16: incremental ok
 17: ignfail ok
 18: link count gt 2 ok
 19: --listed for individual files ok
 20: working --listed FAILED (listed02.at:148)
 21: V7 and long names ok
 22: multivolume dumps from pipes ok
 23: skipping a straddling member ok
 24: MV archive & long filenames ok
 25: old archives ok
 26: recurse ok
 27: same-order01 ok
 28: same-order02 ok
 29: sparse01 ok
 30: volume ok
 31: compressed format recognition ok
 32: gtarfail skipped (gtarfail.at:38)
 33: gtarfail2 skipped (gtarfail2.at:41)
 34: multi-fail skipped (multi-fail.at:86)
 35: ustar-big-2g skipped (ustar-big-2g.at:36)
 36: ustar-big-8g skipped (ustar...

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:15:45 +0100
From: Roland Stigge <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: tar: FTBFS; Failed tests

severity 337854 normal
thanks

Hi,

this only happens when I run pbuilder in a tmpfs chroot. It turned out
that the respective test (pipe.at) compares file lists. Under tmpfs, the
file order in the archive

file2
file1

is different from the one expected by "tar xfz":

file1
file2

I.e. the files may well end up unordered in the archive. Therefore, the
test should be adjusted to this case (e.g., sorting the file list).

bye,
  Roland

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

I see no problem.