Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:12:34 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: security/nss self-test failures Message-ID: <op.u3s3fwlt9aq2h7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4AF9C38C.6000908@aldan.algebra.com> References: <4AF9C38C.6000908@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:48:28 -0600, Mikhail T. <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> wrote: > Hello! > > Simply running `make test' after building nss is not any longer possible > due to bit rot. I'm somewhat disappointed, that far from fixing the > problems detected by the tests, the test-target itself was allowed to > deteriorate... In my not so humble opinion (of the person, who created > that target in the first place), it should be invoked by whoever > upgrades the port at least once to make sure, the upgrade does not > introduce new problems... > > That's the least, that should be expected, really -- especially, in > preparation for a major release like 8.0... > > Here is the simple fix for the target itself: > > http://aldan.algebra.com/~mi/nss-test-target-fix.patch You can commit it. Thanks! Cheers, Mezz > Indeed, there are still some tests failing -- and not uniformly so, > which is troubling. > > FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE/amd64: 8 failures > http://aldan.algebra.com/~mi/tmp/aldan-nss-results.html > FreeBSD-7.0-STABLE/i386: 248 failures > http://aldan.algebra.com/~mi/tmp/symbion-nss-results.html > > I'll try to bring this up with the NSS developers... But if we claim to > support releases as far back as 6.x, we'll need to account for all > failures :( beginning with those, still present in the latest 8.x and > 7.x releases... Yours, > > -mi -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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