It looks as though the updated chgrp fails to correctly handle symlinks when given the -h command-line option. Even if the symlink group cannot be changed, chgrp -h should _do_nothing_, rather than change the group of the target. When compiled as: [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 [5.94-r1] USE="acl nls (-selinux) -static (-build%)" 0 kB the tests exit with the following error message: 1848 make check-TESTS 1849 make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/coreutils-6.4/work/coreutils-6.4/tests/chgrp' 1850 ./no-x: /var/tmp/portage/coreutils-6.4/work/coreutils-6.4/tests/chgrp: not writable by user `nobody' 1851 ./no-x: skipping this test 1852 SKIP: no-x 1853 PASS: posix-H 1854 FAIL: basic 1855 ./deref: skipping this test; your system doesn't support changing 1856 the owner or group of a symbolic link. 1857 SKIP: deref 1858 PASS: recurse 1859 ====================================== 1860 1 of 3 tests failed 1861 (2 tests were not run) 1862 Please report to bug-coreutils@gnu.org 1863 ====================================== 1864 make[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1 1865 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/coreutils-6.4/work/coreutils-6.4/tests/chgrp' 1866 make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2 1867 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/coreutils-6.4/work/coreutils-6.4/tests/chgrp' 1868 make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 1869 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/coreutils-6.4/work/coreutils-6.4/tests' 1870 make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 Specifically, tests/chgrp/basic fails during the portion: 78 79 # This should not change the group of f. 80 chgrp -h $g2 symlink 81 test `stat --printf=%g f` = $g1 || fail=1 82 test `stat --printf=%g symlink` = $g2 || fail=1 83 as indicated by the logs: 2167 + chgrp -h 1 symlink 2168 ++ stat --printf=%g f 2169 + test 1 = 0 2170 + fail=1 2171 ++ stat --printf=%g symlink 2172 + test 0 = 1 2173 + fail=1 produced by compiling with the following options: # env VERBOSE=yes MAKEOPTS='-j1 -w' emerge -1v coreutils For the sake of completeness, here's my emerge --info: Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor Last Sync: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:50:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tera-byte.com/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -w" PKGDIR="/usr/share/packages/portage" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/cache/portage/gentoo" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/cache/portage/boxed-main /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aalib acl alsa bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cjk crypt dga directfb doc elibc_glibc esd fbcon flac gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick input_devices_evdev input_devices_jamstudio input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 java jpeg kernel_linux ldap linguas_en linguas_en_US mad mbox mmx mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png python readline sdl skey slang ssl svga tcl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff tk truetype unicode userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_r128 video_cards_vesa xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 147705 ***
