Re: Git 2.30.0 and failed self tests

From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 10, 2021, 17:24 UTC
Message-ID: <CAH8yC8kdMhCU2WzvCU==dmm8n3+ci2+0Pg_DBF2Np-X+ZKTfgQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4d81f0f1-66eb-2aac-4eab-dc5508d161b1@mail.de>

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:09 PM Stefan Moch <stefanmoch@mail.de> wrote:

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> 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/
>
> >     *** 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

Yeah, I think I yanked exim out of this machine a long time ago (or whatever smtp mailer gets installed). It faces the internet and I did not want the additional attack surface.

Let me run that test manually.

Jeff