On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:06:15PM +0100, walter franzini wrote: > >> There was a problem while autobuilding your package, and I don't think > >> that simply a wishlist bug since it fails to build on a standard > >> autobuilder.
> >Ah, there's nothing standard about running an autobuilder as root. None of > >the official Debian autobuilders run as root, the most any of them do is > >use > >sudo as the rootcmd instead of fakeroot which means the binary target is > >run > >as root -- these testsuite failures happen in the build target, not the > >binary target. > do you mean the the common-build-arch target should not be run under > rootcmd? I don't know, I didn't look inside debian/rules to see what your specific make targets are called -- I just know the testsuite happens under ./debian/rules build, not under ./debian/rules binary-arch. :) > Some problems are fixed by a previous patch I've sent and wich has > been integrated upstream. Other problems are related to a strange, at > least for me, behaviour of fakeroot: > ----------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fakeroot > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# whoami > root > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo $USER > walter > ----------------------------------------------- > This behaviour confuses the testsuite. Is it the expected behaviour? Yes. There's no reason that fakeroot would change the value of a $USER environment variable. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
