We have been seeing intermittent test failures in the Fedora Subversion build for a while. Here is an example build failure:
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/work/tasks/5854/89115854/build.log I think this is caused by libmagic getting applied to small files. I am not 100% confident in this since I don't understand why it only fails intermittently, but I think that disabling magic support in the test suite is correct. Any objection to the attached patch, is there a better place to do this so it applies everywhere? [[[ * subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/main.py (create_config_dir): Disable libmagic support in the default config. ]]]
Index: subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/main.py =================================================================== --- subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/main.py (revision 1902503) +++ subversion/tests/cmdline/svntest/main.py (working copy) @@ -711,6 +711,7 @@ password-stores = [miscellany] interactive-conflicts = false +enable-magic-file = no """ if exclusive_wc_locks: config_contents += """