From d3b4c1358c620135c577eca81c05e09bc1f4bc4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ludovic Courtès
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 00:27:27 +0200
Subject: gnu: tar: Skip tests that rely on undefined unlinkat(2) behavior.

Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/20597>.
Reported by Andrew Patterson <ajpatter@uwaterloo.ca>.

* gnu/packages/patches/tar-skip-unreliable-tests.patch: New file.
* gnu/packages/base.scm (tar)[source](patches): Add it.
* gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
---
 gnu/packages/base.scm                              |  4 ++-
 .../patches/tar-skip-unreliable-tests.patch        | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/tar-skip-unreliable-tests.patch

(limited to 'gnu/packages')

diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index fa7c9e884..31331a108 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -138,7 +138,9 @@ implementation offers several extensions over the standard utility.")
             (sha256
              (base32
               "1wi2zwm4c9r3h3b8y4w0nm0qq897kn8kyj9k22ba0iqvxj48vvk4"))
-            (patches (list (search-patch "tar-d_ino_in_dirent-fix.patch")))))
+            (patches (map search-patch
+                          '("tar-d_ino_in_dirent-fix.patch"
+                            "tar-skip-unreliable-tests.patch")))))
    (build-system gnu-build-system)
    (synopsis "Managing tar archives")
    (description
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/tar-skip-unreliable-tests.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/tar-skip-unreliable-tests.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..27f0d7df1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/tar-skip-unreliable-tests.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+Skip tests that rely on unlinkat(2) behavior that varies between
+kernel versions and is unspecified.
+
+See <http://bugs.gnu.org/20597>
+and <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2015-06/msg00000.html>.
+
+--- tar-1.28/tests/testsuite	2014-07-27 22:35:27.000000000 +0200
++++ tar-1.28/tests/testsuite	2015-06-16 00:21:16.906380739 +0200
+@@ -34680,6 +34680,7 @@ find .
+ )"
+ at_fn_check_prepare_notrace 'an embedded newline' "remfiles08a.at:31"
+ ( $at_check_trace;
++exit 77
+ mkdir gnu
+ (cd gnu
+ TEST_TAR_FORMAT=gnu
+@@ -34762,6 +34763,7 @@ find .
+ )"
+ at_fn_check_prepare_notrace 'an embedded newline' "remfiles08b.at:36"
+ ( $at_check_trace;
++exit 77
+ mkdir gnu
+ (cd gnu
+ TEST_TAR_FORMAT=gnu
+@@ -34850,6 +34852,7 @@ find .
+ )"
+ at_fn_check_prepare_notrace 'a `...` command substitution' "remfiles08c.at:31"
+ ( $at_check_trace;
++exit 77
+ mkdir gnu
+ (cd gnu
+ TEST_TAR_FORMAT=gnu
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