bug#35047: "Running the Test Suite" root user

2019-03-30 Thread mikadoZero
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > mikadoZero, > > mikadoZero wrote: >> Looking at "2.3 Running the Test Suite" of the manual it does not >> mention that tests should be run as a non root user. > > I guess this is one of those (Unix-)cultural knowledge things: it > wouldn't even occur to me to buil

bug#35047: "Running the Test Suite" root user

2019-03-30 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
mikadoZero, mikadoZero wrote: Looking at "2.3 Running the Test Suite" of the manual it does not mention that tests should be run as a non root user. I guess this is one of those (Unix-)cultural knowledge things: it wouldn't even occur to me to build or test anything as root unless explicitl

bug#35047: "Running the Test Suite" root user

2019-03-30 Thread mikadoZero
Looking at "2.3 Running the Test Suite" of the manual it does not mention that tests should be run as a non root user. The test `tests/pack` fails when `make check` is run as a root user. It does not fail when run as a non root user. I found this example by running `make check TESTS="tests/pack.