I've come to a point in woody testing that it might be productive to discuss what updates to woody might be appropriate, if any, to bring it into compliance with the LSB. This note documents my progress, and the changes that need to be made, as a point for discussion.
In my testing of woody against the LSB test suite, and creation of tests that will bring woody into compliance, the following tests are outstanding as of my last report: /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/join/join 3 FAIL /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/join/join 4 FAIL /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/shell/shell 8 FAIL /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/unexpand/unexpand 1 FAIL /tset/LSB.os/files/dev_tty/T.dev_tty 1 UNRESOLVED /tset/LSB.os/ipc/shmdt/T.shmdt 2 FAIL Of these, I've added a patch for the shell failure. The join and unexpand failures may be waived, and the dev_tty problem may be bogus, or at least work-around-able. As for shmdt, I'm still locating the exact patch that will fix that problem. This means that woody may be in a position to pass the LSB test suite soon. I've generated patches to packages in woody which contain the updates needed to get to this point. So far, there are updates to the following source packages: bash 2.0.5a-11 cpio 2.4.2-39 glibc 2.2.5-11.5 grep 2.4.2-3 pax 1.5-12 sed 3.02-8 In addition, I've used kernel-source-2.4.18 2.4.18-13 as the basis for kernel packages containing my changes. The configuration comes from the kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc package. My patch to the kernel is also available above. Finally, I've updated alien to version 8.36 as it appears in the pool. The sarge package appears to install and work without any trouble on woody. I expect that an additional kernel patch, and possibly a glibc patch, will be necessary to fix the shmdt problem. If the join and unexpand tests are not waived, fixing them will require a patch to textutils, which is in progress. To my knowledge, all of the patches above have been accepted by upstream with the following exceptions: - The bash patch is my own work; it adds the [[:hyphen:]] character class to bash 2.05a. - If the textutils patch is needed, it will come from the OpenI18N patch, which has not been integrated.
