Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: sed-4.4.108-20cc

[Jim Meyering]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:32 AM, Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Jim,
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 01:32:23PM -0700, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Here's one more snapshot. I hope to make the release by Friday.
>>
>>   https://meyering.net/sed/sed-4.4.108-20cc.tar.xz
>
> No sed test failures on the following:
>   Darwin 16.7.0 (x86_64)
>   Debian 8.1 (x86_64)
>   Debian 8.10 (i686)
>   Debian 8.9 (mips64)
>   Debian unstable (sparc64)
>   FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE (amd64)
>   FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
>   FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p7 (amd64)
>   GNU Hurd 0.7 (i686-AT386)
>   Linux 3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.ppc64le (ppc64le)
>   Linux 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.ppc64 (ppc64)
>   NetBSD 7.1 (amd64)
>   OpenBSD 5.9 (amd64)
>   OpenBSD 6.0 (amd64)
>   OpenBSD 6.1 (amd64)
>   OpenBSD 6.2 (amd64)
>   Oracle SunOS 5.11 (i86pc)
>   Oracle SunOS 5.11 (sun4u)
>   SUSE LINUX 42.1 (x86_64)
>   Trisquel 7.0 (x86_64)
>   Ubuntu 14.04 (aarch64)
>   Ubuntu 15.04 (i686)
>   Ubuntu 15.04 (x86_64)
>   Ubuntu 16.04 (x86_64)
>   Ubuntu 16.04 (x86_64,CC=clang-3.8)
>   Ubuntu 16.04 (x86_64,CC=clang-4.0)
>   Ubuntu 16.04 (x86_64,CC=clang-5.0)
>   Ubuntu 16.04 (x86_64,CC=gcc)
>   Ubuntu 16.04 (x86_64,CC=gcc-4.9)
>   Ubuntu 16.04 (x86_64,CC=gcc-5.4)
>   Ubuntu 16.04 (x86_64,CC=gcc-6.4)
>   Ubuntu 16.04 (x86_64,CC=gcc-7.2)
>   Ubuntu 16.04 (x86_64,CC=tcc)
>   openSUSE project 13.2 (x86_64)
>   Alpine Linux 3.6.2 (x86_64)
>
> Gnulib's "test-localename" still fails on
>   OpenBSD 6.2, AIX 7.2, Alpine Linux (with musl libc).
>
> ----
>
> I've now tested on more systems, and there's a new failure
> on Fedora 25 and Centos 7.0: 'testsuite/inplace-selinux' (log attached).
> These are the only two OSes that I have that have SELinux turned
> on by default, and I'm not that familiar with SELinux.
>
> On system without SELinux this test is skipped,
> and Jakub (who submitted the original patch) confirmed
> it works on his SELinux system
> ( https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/sed-devel/2018-01/msg00003.html ).
>
> However, perhaps it needs a bit more testing on RedHat-type systems
> with default SELinux configuration?

Indeed. Glad you caught that!

This patch appears to do the job on Centos7. Can you confirm that it
solves the problem on Fedora 25, too?
Thank you,
Jim

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