bug#30299: [core-updates] shepherd fails tests on all systems except x86_64

[Mark H Weaver]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> On core-updates, Hydra has been unable to successfully build 'shepherd'
>> on any system except x86_64-linux.  I can also report that on my
>> mips64el-linux GuixSD system, which is running something close to
>> 'core-updates', I had to disable tests on shepherd in order to build it.
>> I don't know about aarch64-linux.
>>
>> These are the tests that commonly fail:
>>
>>   FAIL: tests/respawn.sh
>>   FAIL: tests/respawn-throttling.sh
>>   FAIL: tests/basic.sh
>
> This is a non-deterministic failure.  I could reproduce the
> tests/basic.sh one and it is fixed by this:
>
>   
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/shepherd.git/commit/?id=cc9564586729a5bb90dd5d2722b543fdde9ab821

Thank you!

> I’ll roll a new Shepherd release soon and update the package.

For now, I added your patch to the shepherd package in core-updates, in
commit f2d2ee42f168909f27c0c3b6532ef16febfd3b86.

      Mark