[illumos-Developer] Need short help with testing { sed, tr, pax } replacement binaries on i386 ...

[Roland Mainz]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
>> I've uploaded a first _test_ version of the { /usr/bin/sed,
>> /usr/xpg4/bin/sed, /usr/bin/tr and /usr/bin pax } replacement binaries
>> for i386 to http://www.nrubsig.org/people/gisburn/work/solaris/illumos/posixcore20100701_i386_001.tar.bz2
>
> ast-sed has the same bug as the FreeBSD did have last year: incorrect backslash
>        handling. We cannot replace programs in a way that cause existing scripts
>        to fail.
>
> ast-tr does not work correctly with "tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'"
>        ÖÄÜ remain uppercase...
>
> What kind of tests have been applied to these programs?

The last tested versions came from the t+ stable branch, they passed
the VSC test chain in March 2010. The test sources (e.g.
ast-open.2010-07-01, u- alpha) are much much newer (there's
technically nearly a gap of a year between the branch split). We just
thought it may be nice to start with a newer version and used these
_untested_ sources for the test binaries to get a faster cycle time
for bug fixes. I now start to regret this decision because it looks
we're getting judged based on the alpha sources... ;-(

And no, neither I nor Olga did test the binaries. We just did minor
manual test and then send it to the list to get feedback because we
were busy with baby stuff.

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Bye,
Roland

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