Broken kyua package causing test failures

Brad Davis brd at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 2 14:56:23 UTC 2015


On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 03:47:47PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Due to this change in the ports tree:
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=399992
> 
> if you try to "pkg install kyua", you will get:
> 
> [1/1] Installing kyua-0.11,2...
> Creating user 'tests' with uid '977'.
> useradd: not found
> pkg: PRE-INSTALL script failed
> 
> 
> This was fixed with:
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=400469
> 
> 
> Until the main package repository is rebuilt with this fix, installing
> kyua from packages will result in test failures because of a missing
> "tests" user.

Sorry about this!

It is a bit humorous that our testing tool exposed this bug!

> According to the ports team, this should be fixed in a few days once the
> packages are rebuilt.

It looks like the build is done now.


Regards,
Brad Davis


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