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Re: squeeze update of eglibc



On 2015-03-05 12:09, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-02-28 at 21:02 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > I've started preparing an update to eglibc, fixing the many open
> > security issues of lower severity than those fixed recently.
> > 
> > I didn't yet had time to test it properly, so I've uploaded my work to
> > <https://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/squeeze-lts/> so others can
> > test further and maybe complete the update.  The version number there is
> > 2.11.3-4+deb6u5~benh.1 but the real update should be 2.11.3-4+deb6u5.
> > 
> > There don't appear to be any regressions in compiler warnings, and
> > nothing went obviously wrong when I installed the new libraries in a VM.
> > 
> > However, for the current version, 2.11.3-4+deb6u4, the build log shows 1
> > unexpected test suite failure for each of the library configurations:
> > 
> >         Encountered regressions that don't match expected failures:
> >         bug-regex32.out, Error 1
> >         
> > while for my version, 2.11.3-4+deb6u5~benh.1, there were several more:
> > 
> >         [i386]
> >         Encountered regressions that don't match expected failures:
> >         bug-regex32.out, Error 1
> >         tst-cancel4.out, Error 1
> >         tst-cancel5.out, Error 1
> >         tst-nice.out, Error 1
> [...]
> 
> I now understand all the regressions:
> 
> - tst-nice failed because I run pbuilder with 'nice -19' and the test
>   process then can't change its niceness.  It passes without this.
> - tst-cancel4 (and the three variants compiled in different ways) fails
>   as the minimum kernel socket buffer size is now larger than it
>   assumes.   I cherry-picked a fix from glibc git and it now passes.

Sorry for not answering earlier. I confirm that your analysis is
correct. Unfortunately a lot of tests are failing or passing depending
on the kernel version.

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
aurelien@aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net

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