On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 10:24:22PM +0200, Jonas Genannt wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > Then the test needs fixing, because autobuilders will not necessarily have > > home directories for the buildd user, and packages need to build correctly > > in such an environment because they're not supposed to mess with anything > > outside the build tree.
> We can rewrite the test that the test uses (not the current user that starts) > the root account to perform all tests. > But I think that's not a very clean solution, because than the current user > needs permission to access the /root directory. That's a wrong solution. You need to fix the package so that it doesn't require writing to *any* external home directory during the build. If you need a "home directory" to use for tests, please set HOME=./tmp or similar, creating the directory in the build target and deleting it in the clean target. > Perhaps we should disable the make test in the build process? That's an option; I don't think setting HOME is an unreasonable solution, so that's what I would recommend so that you can preserve the benefits of having build-time tests, but dropping the tests wouldn't be the end of the world either. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
