Re: Bug#462226: coreutils: FTBFS on mips: tests failed: rm/deep-1, rm/dangling-symlink, ...

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:05:39PM +0000, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
>> ruby1.9 is another package affected by this.
>
> I'd guess that there are a lot of packages affected by this, but which  
> don't run extensive validation tests as part of the build process.

Those are the only strange mips-specific build failures I noticed.
Apparently the kernel flaw doesn't cause trouble for normal operation
of mips machines.

>> I'm currently validating the stability of 2.6.24 on the same hardware
>> as our buildds have, I hope the problem can be solved over this weekend.
>
> Meaning that the buildd's will be upgraded then & I should just wait for  
> them to try to rebuild coreutils after that? (Just want to make sure I  
> understand the proper path forward.)

Yes.


Thiemo