[darcs-users] What's wrong with darcs on Solaris-based buildbots?

[Karel Gardas]

Eric Kow wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 21:52:09 +0200, Karel Gardas wrote:
>> The problem here is that buildbot tries to delete directory with 444
>> permissions. That's going to fail on both Solaris and OpenBSD. My
>> assumption is that it runs well on Linux, but on Unix you probably need
>> writing permission for it. Perhaps test suite might be fixed when
>> creating and testing with 444 perms directory to chmod it later to
>> writing mode? Or that's my feeling about this issue so far w/o any
>> further investigation except looking into the problematic directory.
> 
> I've sent a patch to do this cleanup in the test harness.  In the
> meantime, it might be useful if you have a look at
>   tests/issue595_get_permissions.sh
>   ( darcs get http://darcs.net/unstable )
> and suggest some reasons why it might be failing

Ah, now I see darcs does have unstable branch again. BTW: all tests run
fine on stable branch. Anyway, I'm curious from which branch exactly
upcoming 2.1.0 is going to be made?

I'll try to look at this permission issue anyway...

Thanks,
Karel