lyndon wrote: > > On Jul 4, 2014, at 11:23 AM, David Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> but now re-reading, i'm not sure i understand. is diff's choking a > >> secondary effect, or is it the primary failure? > > > > My guess is that the problem is with the behavior of > > mhbuild, not diff. diff is reporting a difference, which is > > all it does for binary files. At this point, we don't know > > whether the difference is benign. > > The nuls are not being base64 encoded in the message. When diff > tries to compare the files it stumbles upon the line of bare nuls > and bails out. > > The underlying bug is that the nuls are not getting base64 encoded > in the first place. I have no idea what's magic about netbsd that > is causing this to be the case.
i've succeeded in installing netbsd-current in a virtualbox VM, and have built nmh. while the system doesn't seem particularly stable -- loooong unexplained delays during tests (i'm talking minutes) before completion -- the tests do all eventually finish successfully. for the instability, i'm inclined to suspect the virtualbox environment and not netbsd, since VB is running at 100% CPU when these delays occur. i have a spare physical machine i can try an install on as well. i may do that just for clarity. (i'm running the 0625141200Z netbsd-current build.) paul =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 67.1 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
