[csw-maintainers] Updated findutils package (4.4.2) in experimental/, please test

Gordon Marler gmarler at opencsw.org
Sun Aug 29 02:09:01 CEST 2010


On 08/26/10 01:28 PM, Ben Walton wrote:
> Excerpts from Gordon Marler's message of Thu Aug 26 13:07:36 -0400 2010:
>
> Hi Gordon,
>
>
>> The failed tests are explicitly documented in the Makefile, if they
>> are deemed important enough to fix.  At least 4 of them appear to be
>>
> If any of the errors are surrounding ACL (permission denied stuff),
> you may want to look at the patch I carry (for now, it's in upstream)
> with coreutils.  It's a gnulib fix that handles an extra error
> condition with the permission setting routines.  I _think_ that
> findutils is also using gnulib and if it's not a current enough import
> there, it likely suffers from the same error that coreutils did.
>
Thanks for the tip Ben, will check that out.
> Other than that, nice to see an update to this.  Will you be providing
> your own /opt/csw/gnu links?  I'd appreciate you adding them so that I
> can drop those links from the CSWgnulinks package.
>
>
Will do that too.

> HTH.
> -Ben
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