Re: Git 2.30.0 and failed self tests

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:09 PM Stefan Moch [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Jeff,

Jeffrey Walton wrote:

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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/ (local)

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    *** 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