bug#22558: gnupg-2.1.11 on x86_64 failed its tests many times on Hydra

[Mark H Weaver]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 06:22:46PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>> 
>> > Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:
>> >
>> >>> > * With 14 test failures.  This happened at least twice, on
>> >>> >   hydra.gnunet.org.
>> >>>
>> >>> Eric Bavier reported on #guix that it failed to build on his machine
>> >>> twice in a row, with 14 test failures.
>> >>
>> >> I used 'git bisect' on the gnupg repository to narrow the failures
>> >> down. Commit ee87c653bf is the commit that introduces the failures.
>> >
>> > Thanks for digging!  Could you report it upstream?
>> 
>> I reported it upstream, and now they have a fix in their repo.
>> I've attached a patch to Guix which adds this upstream patch.
>> 
>> Eric, would you be willing to test it and see if it fixes the problem
>> for you?
>
> I'm not Eric, but with this patch, I can successfully build on the
> machine that was previously exhibiting the failures.

Thanks!  I went ahead and pushed this to master, commit 3a7261bf96.
I'm closing this bug now.

      Mark