Alpine Linux: Tests failing on latest release (v2.9)

[oxr463]

I'm the maintainer of bash-completion for Alpine Linux,
and I have a few tests that are failing on the latest release:

• arping - using version from iputils.
• getconf - using version from musl libc.
• iconv - same as above.
• ifup/ifdown - using only version (as far as I know), from debian.

NOTE: I'm developing in an LXC container, so I'm assuming that's why ifup/ifdown are failing, the log mentions something about failing to run due to being in a Docker container.

See: https://gitlab.com/oxr463/aports/issues/31

log.txt

[scop]

I believe container stuff (thus arping and ifup/ifdown) and getconf are now taken care of in master per the above two commits, but I'm not sure what to do about iconv. It doesn't seem to recognize any options whatsoever, just responds with "unrecognized option" with all -* I've tried.

[oxr463]

I did some further digging, and apparently, there are functional differences between glibc and musl versions of iconv, (See: https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc.html#iconv).

Is there a way to force-skip a test? Not very familiar with iconv so I'm not really sure what is different.

[scop]

Sure, there may be that kind of functional differences but that doesn't mean it'd have to affect bash-completion in any way. Adding a skip for option completion because the musl one doesn't output an usage message we could use to parse options from: https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/musl/iconv.c

[oxr463]

Oh that's true. Sounds good to me!

[scop]

Pretty much all of this should be taken care of in master, apart from killall/pidof failures which are tracked in #318.

[oxr463]

Thanks!

[nh2]

Could you make a release? NixOS with musl also suffers from this.