Re: Git 2.30.0 and failed self tests

From: Stefan Moch <stefanmoch@mail.de>
Date: Jan 10, 2021, 17:09 UTC
Message-ID: <4d81f0f1-66eb-2aac-4eab-dc5508d161b1@mail.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8km6mHsrCD6sW+Z2ERpyO_X8Xp6fJbYKV+JF2gaqYakgQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jeff,

Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> I'm seeing some failed self tests with 2.30.0 on Fedora 33 x86_64
> fully patched. They seem to be centered around email.

I cannot confirm this on the same git version and platform:

    # passed all 174 test(s)
    1..174

Christian's suggestion from your other thread about running the test with the options -i -v -x should also help here to give more detailed error messages:

https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAP8UFD30et-kL8dFoWvh7aPf4AKbzGxSzTuA=B3YNHZL_1axFA@mail.gmail.com/

Show 5 quoted lines

>     *** t9001-send-email.sh ***
>     ok 1 - prepare reference tree
>     ok 2 - Setup helper tool
>     ok 3 - Extract patches
>     not ok 4 - No confirm with --suppress-cc

Since the tests 1-3 do not call git send-email, but test 4 and most of the following do, I suspect the system is missing some dependency packages needed for git send-email, probably mail-related Perl modules.

Installing Fedora's git-email package is probably enough to fix this:

    dnf install git-email

Stefan