security/nss self-test failures

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:48:28 -0600, Mikhail T. <mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com>  
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Simply running `make test' after building nss is not any longer possible
> due to bit rot. I'm somewhat disappointed, that far from fixing the
> problems detected by the tests, the test-target itself was allowed to
> deteriorate... In my not so humble opinion (of the person, who created
> that target in the first place), it should be invoked by whoever
> upgrades the port at least once to make sure, the upgrade does not
> introduce new problems...
>
> That's the least, that should be expected, really -- especially, in
> preparation for a major release like 8.0...
>
> Here is the simple fix for the target itself:
>
>     http://aldan.algebra.com/~mi/nss-test-target-fix.patch

You can commit it. Thanks!

Cheers,
Mezz

> Indeed, there are still some tests failing -- and not uniformly so,
> which is troubling.
>
>     FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE/amd64: 8 failures
>         http://aldan.algebra.com/~mi/tmp/aldan-nss-results.html
>     FreeBSD-7.0-STABLE/i386: 248 failures
>         http://aldan.algebra.com/~mi/tmp/symbion-nss-results.html
>
> I'll try to bring this up with the NSS developers... But if we claim to
> support releases as far back as 6.x, we'll need to account for all
> failures :( beginning with those, still present in the latest 8.x and
> 7.x releases... Yours,
>
>     -mi


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