skip a test that relies on /proc/kallsyms having immutable content

coreutils-8.31-disable-test-cp-proc-short-read.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From 0618c1b3b62cd68d22371b55fe6ca9dc8a00ea51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>
+Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:58:37 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] tests/cp/proc-short-read.sh: skip unreliable test
+
+Bug: https://debbugs.gnu.org/39357
+---
+ tests/cp/proc-short-read.sh | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/tests/cp/proc-short-read.sh b/tests/cp/proc-short-read.sh
+index e466720..2a61127 100755
+--- a/tests/cp/proc-short-read.sh
++++ b/tests/cp/proc-short-read.sh
+@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ print_ver_ cp
+ 
+ kall=/proc/kallsyms
+ 
+-test -r $kall || skip_ "your system lacks $kall"
++skip_ "If the content of $kall changed on the fly, this test would fail."
+ 
+ # Before coreutils-7.3, cp would copy less than 4KiB of this 1MB+ file.
+ cp $kall 1    || fail=1
+-- 
+2.21.1
+

coreutils.spec

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts
 Name:    coreutils
 Version: 8.31
-Release: 7%{?dist}
+Release: 8%{?dist}
 License: GPLv3+
 Url:     https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
 Source0: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ Source106:  coreutils-colorls.csh
 # md5sum,b2sum,sha*sum: --help: add note about binary/text mode
 Patch1:   coreutils-8.31-sums-man-pages.patch
 
+# skip a test that relies on /proc/kallsyms having immutable content
+Patch2:   coreutils-8.31-disable-test-cp-proc-short-read.patch
+
 # disable the test-lock gnulib test prone to deadlock
 Patch100: coreutils-8.26-test-lock.patch
 
@@ -235,6 +238,9 @@ rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_infodir}/dir
 %license COPYING
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Jan 30 2020 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 8.31-8
+- skip a test that relies on /proc/kallsyms having immutable content
+
 * Tue Jan 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org>
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild