45mg <45mg.wri...@gmail.com> writes: > The only approach I'm aware of is to just ignore such tests. Examples of > this I've seen: > > mdadm: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/linux.scm#n5943 > borg: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/backup.scm#n739 > rdiff-backup: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/backup.scm#n540 > maradns: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/dns.scm#n1197 > hostscope: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/monitoring.scm#n698 > python-path: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm#n17458 > python-executing: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm#n11112 > > I haven't been able to find a single instance of tests requiring root > that we /don't/ skip. (But then, I don't really know how to look, > either...) > > Surely there must be a way to do this?
Sure there is. The one I found is horrific though. In my channel I packaged acme-client (Let's Encrypt client ported from OpenBSD), and root is required for the tests. I resolved to using bubblewrap to pretend I am a root. You can see all the eye-cancer causing details here[0]. Tomas 0: https://git.wolfsden.cz/wolfsden/tree/wolfsden/packages/tls.scm#n76 -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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