Bug#1041588: bug#64773: grep 3.11 -r on 100000+ files fails with "Operation not supported"

2023-07-21 Thread Jim Meyering
On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 4:38 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > To fix just this bug (as opposed to the other Gnulib-related bugs that > may be lurking) try applying the attached Gnulib patch to a grep 3.11 > tarball. > > Closing the debbugs.gnu.org bug report, as the bug has been fixed upstream. Thanks for

Bug#684713: support for partitioned linux md devices

2012-08-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > I've also filed this as a debian bugreport, > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684713 > > Linux md raid array devices come in two flavours: partionable > (/dev/md_d0) and non-partitionable (/dev/md0). Or at least, > that used to be the case, until ker

Bug#669555: coreutils: FTBFS: env: setfacl: No such file or directory

2012-04-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Source: coreutils > Version: 8.13-3.1 > Severity: serious > Tags: wheezy sid > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20120419 qa-ftbfs > Justification: FTBFS on amd64 > > Hi, > > During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on > amd64

Bug#622182: FTBFS: test touch/now-owned-by-other fails

2011-04-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hi. > > Jim Meyering, 11.04.2011 09:13: >> Mathias Brodala wrote: >>>> FAIL: misc/tail (exit: 1) >>>> = >> ... >>>> f-pipe-1.p... >>>> tail: test f-pipe-1.p: stderr mism

Bug#622182: FTBFS: test touch/now-owned-by-other fails

2011-04-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Mathias Brodala wrote: >> FAIL: misc/tail (exit: 1) >> = ... >> f-pipe-1.p... >> tail: test f-pipe-1.p: stderr mismatch, comparing f-pipe-1.p.E >> (actual) and f-pipe-1.p.3 (expected) >> *** f-pipe-1.p.E Sat Apr 9 22:58:08 2011 >> --- f-pipe-1.p.3 Sat Apr 9 22:58:0

Bug#622182: FTBFS: test touch/now-owned-by-other fails

2011-04-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Mathias Brodala wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 8.5-1 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Building coreutils fails on the test touch/now-owned-by-other. I see the > same result when building via pbuilder, thus I’d assume it’s nothing > about my environment. > > Se

Bug#579948: [parted-devel] Some debugging info

2010-06-26 Thread Jim Meyering
le non-cylinder alignment > (http://bugs.debian.org/579948). Thanks! I've applied that. However, since it would have made a test fail, I first applied this change: >From a582ca642f4817dd02e65a3ecc55e951008969b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:22:59 +020

Bug#577095: grep: bracket expressions fails depending on the locale

2010-04-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > I reproduced this bug, see below. > > grep --version > GNU grep 2.6.3 > > cat /tmp/a > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > anibal:x:1000:1000:Anibal Monsalve Salazar,,,:/home/anibal:/bin/bash > Debian-exim:x:102:104::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false > ntp:x:106:108::/home/

Bug#548493: reassign to dash

2009-09-29 Thread Jim Meyering
retitle 548493 dash: don't read-uninitialized for \177 in a here-doc reassign 548493 dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#548493: test-yesno.sh failure

2009-09-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> # Test with seekable stdin; the followon process must see remaining data. >> -cat < ${p}in.tmp >> +cat < ${p}in.tmp > > This can be simplified to: > > tr @ '\177' < ${p}

Bug#548493: [PATCH] don't read-uninitialized for \177 in a here-doc

2009-09-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > It was indeed a bug in dash. > I tracked it down and wrote the patch below: > >>From 53924ce6da7fece91e57b7238e6aa81a4df636a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Jim Meyering > Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:00:05 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] don't read-uni

Bug#548493: [PATCH] don't read-uninitialized for \177 in a here-doc

2009-09-28 Thread Jim Meyering
It was indeed a bug in dash. I tracked it down and wrote the patch below: >From 53924ce6da7fece91e57b7238e6aa81a4df636a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:00:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] don't read-uninitialized for \177 in a here-doc A DEL (0177, dec 1

Bug#548493: test-yesno.sh failure

2009-09-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:51:48AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Thanks for the report. >> Does the following change fix it? >> If so, please tell me what version of bash it's using >> so I can add that to the commit log. > > Note that

Bug#548493: test-yesno.sh failure

2009-09-27 Thread Jim Meyering
If so, please tell me what version of bash it's using so I can add that to the commit log. >From 0f02aaf44de2d5dc0470bc9ca979f047df7df024 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:41:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] test-yesno: use here document *without* parameter

Bug#544965: Is umask o+w set?

2009-09-06 Thread Jim Meyering
ass. (ls-misc fails with > the same output as you posted) Thanks for finding the root cause. I've fixed it upstream like this: >From 9403417175b40656bbaac0f109841c90f9c05838 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:35:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tests: ls-misc: don't let a bogus umask

Bug#525048: [PATCH] sort -m: don't segfault when output file is also an input file

2009-04-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Thanks to Otavio Salvador for finding/reporting this. Here's the patch I'm considering: >From 570beb56f58bb087a614af885bec7e9cf6b19423 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:45:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] sort -m: don't segfault when output fil

Bug#464118: rm -r broken: Function not implemented

2008-02-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the record, here's what I did: > > Simulate the lack of openat functions: > ac_cv_func_openat=no ./configure && make && make check > All tests passed. > > Next, pretend we don't have /proc

Bug#464118: rm -r broken: Function not implemented

2008-02-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Adam Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 07:16:12PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: >> Could you send an strace from one of the non-working systems? That might >> be enough to figure out what's going wrong and whether it can be worked >> around. > > Attached. Thanks. Please do

Bug#460422: Alignment issue with sha1 code from gnulib

2008-01-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Peter Palfrader reported a bug against the sha1 code in paperkey, but >> that code actually comes from gnulib, so I'm referring it to you. >> >> The issue comes up (as n

Bug#460422: Alignment issue with sha1 code from gnulib

2008-01-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like a good one. > > The suggestion also applies to the 'md5' module, after which the 'sha1' module > is modeled. Yep. md2 and md4 too. For now,

Bug#460422: Alignment issue with sha1 code from gnulib

2008-01-30 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like a good one. > However, I don't want to change the type of the resbuf parameter. > Here's the change I'm considering: And of course, coreutils/lib/sha*.c would get the same change.

Bug#460422: Alignment issue with sha1 code from gnulib

2008-01-30 Thread Jim Meyering
David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Palfrader reported a bug against the sha1 code in paperkey, but > that code actually comes from gnulib, so I'm referring it to you. > > The issue comes up (as noted in the comment) if resbuf is not 32-bit > aligned. Rather than requiring all programs t

Bug#462226: coreutils: FTBFS on mips: tests failed: rm/deep-1, rm/dangling-symlink, ...

2008-01-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:04:22PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >>Note that the mipsel buildd failed in the exact same way. > > Yeah, same theory holds. Until it can be duplicated with a manual > build or we get the build logs it ain't gonna be easy to fi

Bug#442040: coreutils: FTBFS on PPC in seq test suite

2007-09-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Bram Senders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 07:58:22PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Thanks for the report. >> However, I've just built from the very latest upstream sources >> (but probably no change to seq since the 20070907 snapshot)

Bug#442040: coreutils: FTBFS on PPC in seq test suite

2007-09-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Bram Senders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 6.10~20070907 > Severity: serious > Justification: no longer builds from source > > Hi there, > > I cannot build the current coreutils from experimental from source on > PowerPC, because of a failure in the seq test suite: ...

Bug#433394: FTBFS: conflicting types for 'futimens'

2007-07-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 03:54:03PM +0200, you wrote: >>Alright. Will there be an update? Upstream already is at version 6.9. > > I'm aware of the upstream version. The difficulty is with the > integration of the selinux stuff (which wasn't in the experime

Bug#426904: coreutils: FTBFS

2007-06-01 Thread Jim Meyering
"Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 5.97-5 > Severity: serious > Justification: no longer builds from source > > make[3]: Entering directory > `/home/wena/temp/coreutils-5.97/build-tree/coreutils-5.97/tests/chgrp' > /usr/bin/make check-TESTS > make[4]:

Bug#421555: coreutils: printf "%-1.25000000s" segfaults

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Meyering
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 5.97-5.3 > Severity: important > > $ /usr/bin/printf '%-1.2500s\n' 'Hello' > > Is a quite good testcase :) > > FWIW libc printf seems to work properly. Further poking shows that it > may be locale-dependant as the f

Bug#380552: a possible medium term soloution

2007-02-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:52:12AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> Bastian, do you have any explanation for this? coreutils now builds >> successfully in the test environment Manoj set up using bind mounts, but >> still fails on the s390 buildd. What is

Bug#380552: failed again on the same test

2007-02-01 Thread Jim Meyering
"peter green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > reopen 380552 > thanks > > looks like this is still an issue. > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=coreutils;ver=5.97-5.3;arch=s390;stamp=1170189620 > FAIL: pwd-long Thanks for reporting that. Somehow, even gnulib's getcwd is failing, and then the rob

Bug#380552: failure of pwd-long test on linux bind mount

2007-01-20 Thread Jim Meyering
has the right inode) and I'm not sure that I can > think of a way to rewrite the test so that it would actually work on a > bind mount. Maybe we could only compare the part from pwd-long.tmp on, > but would that still test for whatever failure lead to the test in the > first place?

Bug#380552: coreutils - FTBFS

2006-07-31 Thread Jim Meyering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > Michael Stone wrote: >> Bastian Blank wrote: >> >[...] >> >>FAIL: pwd-long >> >> Since this is the only failure listed, I'll assume it's the problem. Was >> there any actual diagnostic message in the part you snipped? > > Thanks for the report. If you can se

Bug#339136: Which packages rely on the old stat behavior?

2005-12-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the solution is going to be: to fix the programs that use > the stat program so that they work either with the old or with the > new behavior, and/or to add versioned Conflicts to coreutils for > each package version containing a program that depends on t

Bug#339136: stat behavior change

2005-11-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > reopen 339136 > retitle 339136 stat --format behavior change with default newline > thanks ... > Older (sarge system): ... > stat * --format "%d %i:"|tr : '\n' | head > 2054 21186142 > 2054 21186136 > 2054 7831563 > > Newer(current sid): ... > $ stat * --

Bug#339136: Changes in stat package output break apt-move

2005-11-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > My main concern here is that there is no way for someone to use > stat -c "%whatever" file1 file2 > and expect it to work for both syntaxes without reverting to some truely > hideous sed games or somesuch. But there *is* a way. It's just that the por

Bug#339136: Changes in stat package output break apt-move

2005-11-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:42:12AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: >> With stat, a specified format is no longer automatically newline terminated. >> If you want a newline at the end of your output, append `\n' to the format >>

Bug#339136: Changes in stat package output break apt-move

2005-11-15 Thread Jim Meyering
[ For those reading this via bug-coreutils, the original bug report is here: http://bugs.debian.org/339136. ] Thanks for the report. FYI, this change was mentioned in the NEWS for upstream coreutils-5.3.0, 10 months ago. With stat, a specified format is no longer automatically newline termina

Bug#334596: libssl0.9.8: upgrade to 0.9.8a-1 makes ssh segfault

2005-10-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Package: libssl0.9.8 Version: 0.9.8-3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This is mainly a guess/warning. A few minutes ago I ran aptitude to upgrade all but the libc6 packages and pulled in 0.9.8a-1 versions of libssl and openssl. But right after an uneventful install, I saw

Bug#274705: mv: --reply doesn't work

2005-08-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Anthony Towns wrote: > tag 274705 + patch > thanks > > So the relevant code seems to be in src/copy.c, where it checks if > "--reply=no" was set _and_ the file isn't overwritable; or if "-i" was > set, or if no option was given and the file isn't overwritable. So > "--reply=no" has an effect when