I'm guessing these things are due to interaction with some Apple
security update, as the buildbots were working well 8 months ago.

Bill

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Nick Coghlan <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> If Bill gets a chance to investigate this before the weekend, great, otherwise my plan to stop making noise in the buildbot results will be to:
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> 1. Create a separate issue specifically for the errors reported by the Mac OS X buildbots (allowing the problem to be spelled out more clearly for readers, and also allowing the feature request itself to be closed)
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> 2. Flag the offending tests as expected failures on Mac OS X, with a pointer back to the new tracker issue.
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> That way, if these failures are due to underlying OS bugs or limitations (as they appear to be), we'll get a clear indication in the buildbots when Apple have fixed the relevant problems.
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