On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:52:40PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> Looking at the date code in coreutils, I think the only things that use
> the zoneinfo data is when TZ is set or /etc/localtime is a copy of a
> file in the zone DB. I'll be interested in what you find.
>
I do wish you hadn't said that ;) We always create /etc/localtime
(at the end of glibc). Anyway, for my first set of testing I'm
looking at _all_ the packages which had test failures. The only
changes are that chapter 6 has been completed, and I've temporarily
removed /etc/localtime. I _think_ that should probably be based on a
regular (i.e. posix) file, but it was using a 'right/' file because
that was the only variant installed.
sed : I've got to revisit this, my results don't make sense. The
tests use the ru_RU.UTF-8 setting to test manipulations of 'да д'
(da d in cyrillic letters). When I firest *re*ran this, the output
was garbage: ÿÿа ÿÿ, but after stepping through the first test
trying various things including editing the Makefile.tests, and then
reverting that, it seemed to work. For those who haven't seen this,
it's all four utf8-{1..4} tests, and they have been failing for some
time in my builds. NB - not related to tzdata! I'll probably defer
further review until the tzdata is sorted.
e2fsprogs-1.42.5 - the 9 failures remain.
coreutils-8.17 - the 2 failures have gone. They were
test-getlogin - insufficient ACL support
test-parse-datetime - assertion failed
Either removing a (possibly wrong) /etc/localtime did the trick, or
else something I built later fixed coreutils.
perl-5.16.1 - again, the 2 failures have gone.
cpan/IO-Compress/t/105oneshot-zip-only
cpan/Time-Local/t/Local
(they were originally both 1 second different from the expected
results) Same conclusion as coreutils.
automake-1.12.2 - I delayed this until last, and it's still running.
NB - 91 failures, I don't expect tz issues to be behind all of
them, but I normally blow away the build when the package has been
installed, so I've no idea what is going on until I've rerun it.
flex-2.5.37 - still the 2 failures, they don't seem to be related to
date/time consideration : test-bison-yyl{loc,val}. Again, I'll
probably defer these until the tzdata is a bit clearer.
patch-2.6.1 - again, the failure has gone
patch --backup --set-utc 1
like the perl, that was 1 second different when I first ran it.
Doing without /etc/localtime is clearly not the correct solution,
so I'm going to leave the automake tests running, and then I'll look
at changing the tzdata and retesting.
ĸen
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