On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 11:17:28PM +0100, Dennis Filder wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 09:49:01PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > sudo.prerm will error out unconditionally if there is no root password > > set. This breaks the replacement of sudo with sudo-ldap in autopkgtest > > environments and makes ugly workarounds necessary. How would we make > > this better? > > I don't see the issue here. That was put in there for a very good > reason: to not bork the system if something goes wrong during the > replacement. A system without a root password set is a very > unorthodox use case.
If you run the Debian installer with default settings, you get a system without root password. I guess the majority of desktop installations run that way. > Running autopkgtest with --env=SUDO_FORCE_REMOVE=yes should make this > work. As far as I know, you generally cannot control the environment in all autopkgtest instances. > Of course, it would be nicer if the format for d/tests/control > offered something like Extra-Environment: to specify (a file with > definitions of) additional environment variables for a set of tests. Yes. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
