On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 6:27 PM, Thomas Liske <tho...@fiasko-nw.net> wrote: > > tags 857730 upstream > severity 857730 wishlist > thanks > > > Hi Bastien, > > > Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com> writes: > >>>> severity: important >>> >>> Using severity important for anything DPKG_ROOT related sounds dubious >>> to me, because the feature is not finalized in dpkg, but a technology >>> preview. > > Please do not abuse the bug severity - I do not think that this issue has any > major effect on the usability of a package. > > [1] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities > > >>>> Testing dpkg testsuite without beeing root needrestart crash. >>> >>> Maybe you can give more details here as to what crashes and how it >>> fails? >>> >>>> I believe need restart need to take in account $DPKG_ROOT >>> >>> You mentioned on irc that the file you want to touch is >>> /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/needrestart. That's not a maintainer script. >>> DPKG_ROOT is only defined during maintainer script execution. Thus >>> DPKG_ROOT will be undefined here. >>> >>>> at least it should not execute if dpkg-root is set (so patch) >>> >>> Why should execution of needrestart depend on the way maintainer scripts >>> are executed? That doesn't make any sense to me. Shouldn't the real >>> condition be something like skipping needrestart when it is not >>> installed in the system /? >> >> No rootless dpkg fail if needrestart is installed. This is the bug. >> >> To test install dpkg testsuite and run >> >> DPKG_TESTSUITE_OPTIONS="not-root" eatmydata make test >> >> it will fail with a permission problem > > Please provide a consistent error description (Does needrestart crash or > is there a permission problem?) including some screen logs and howto > reproduce the problem. > > If the testsuite stuff is WIP we maybe should wait until it is finalized > and there is a recommendation available howto handle the testsuite in > (pre-invoke|post-invoke|status-logger) commands.
Seems reasonable but it still fail with permission problem. It is reproductible do not remember the exact error but it fail apt > > > HTH, > Thomas > > -- > > :: WWW: https://fiasko-nw.net/~thomas/ :: > ::: Jabber: xmpp:tho...@jabber.fiasko-nw.net ::: > :: flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/laugufe/ ::
