Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Jim Meyering <[email protected]> writes: > >>> Regarding ‘chgrp/basic’, the test finds groups='30000 65534'. However, >>> 65534 corresponds to ‘nogroup’. (The build process runs under a special >>> user, typically: >>> >>> $ id nixbld1 >>> uid=30001(nixbld1) gid=65534(nogroup) groups=30000(nixbld),65534(nogroup) >> >> It looks like there is something different >> about NixOS, since normally when a user U is a member >> of a group G, and U runs "chown U:G file", that command succeeds. > > This has now been fixed in NixOS by having build users belong to the > ‘nixbld’ group and no supplementary groups. > > The test suite passes on GNU/Linux
Great! Is there a way I can be notified of each change in pass/fail state? At worst I'll set up something RSS-based. > but not on Darwin where a couple of tests fail [0]: Thanks, maybe we'll find someone willing to invest in Darwin. I'm not terribly concerned. > http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/coreutils-master/all > > A Coreutils “view” is available at: > > http://hydra.nixos.org/view/gnu/coreutils-master > > Successful builds yield a page containing the tarball, NixOS binaries (I > can add Debian, Fedora, etc. if need be), the manual in PDF/HTML, and a > code coverage report.
