On Mar 31, 2:44 am, Timothy G Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Tim,
> In running doctests with my Debian installation of SAGE (where SAGE_ROOT
> is set to /usr/lib/sagemath), it's been annoying that one needs to run the
> tests as root so that SAGE can write to
>
> - $SAGE_ROOT/tmp/test.log
> - .doctest_filename.py in various directories of the SAGE install
> - the directory .doctest in various directories of the SAGE install
>
> Writing to the SAGE install itself is a good strategy when there may be
> many SAGE installations on the system, since it prevents two SAGE installs
> from both trying to write to /tmp/test.log (or whatever). But it's bad
> for a multi-user setting with a single SAGE installation.
>
> I think the right way to fix this is to add a SAGE_TESTDIR environment
> variable, which defaults to SAGE_ROOT/tmp if it is not set, and have all
> these test-related files get written inside SAGE_TESTDIR. The SAGE
> wrapper script on Debian would set SAGE_TESTDIR to something like
> ~/.sage/tests (if it isn't set already by the user).
Yeah, I think that makes sense. But we might want to do something even
more general since in other cases (sage -optional) as non-root the
same permission issues come into place. See #961 for that ticket.
> Thoughts?
>
> -Tim Abbott
Cheers,
Michael
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