Re: [OE-core][master][PATCH v2] rsync: add ptest support

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Tue Jun 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM CEST, nikhil via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Package the upstream rsync testsuite and helper binaries
> into rsync-ptest package and add a run-ptest wrapper for
> executing the tests.
>
> backup.test is skipped due to intermittent failures
> observed on qemux86-64.
> The issue has been reported upstream:
>
> https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/941
>
> Tested on qemux86-64 using ptest-runner with all
> executed tests passing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nikhil R <nikhilar2410@gmail.com>
> ---

Hi Nikhil,

Thanks for the new version.

It looks like some tests are failing now:

AssertionError:
Failed ptests:
{'rsync': 'START: ptest-runner\n'
          '2026-06-02T19:14\n'
          '============================================================\n'
          'runtests.py running in /usr/lib/rsync/ptest\n'
          '    rsync_bin=/usr/bin/rsync\n'
          '    srcdir=/usr/lib/rsync/ptest\n'
          '    TLS_ARGS=-l -L\n'
          '    testuser=root\n'
          '    os=Linux qemuarm64 6.18.33-yocto-standard #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed '
          'May 27 22:05:49 UTC 2026 aarch64 GNU/Linux\n'
	  ...
          'cd+++++++++ ./\n'
          'cd+++++++++ A weird)name/\n'
          '>f+++++++++ A weird)name/file\n'
          'tls: stat ./A\\: No such file or directory\n'
          '----- 00-hello log ends\n'
          'FAIL    00-hello\n'

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/61/builds/3737
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/73/builds/3756
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/109/builds/487
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/110/builds/471

Can you have a look at the issue?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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