retitle 524309 git-core: Test suite fails when run as root severity 524309 minor thank you
Hi Marc, Marc Mutz wrote: > * failed 4 among 5 test(s) > make[3]: *** [t0004-unwritable.sh] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/foo/git-core-1.6.2.3/t' > make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/foo/git-core-1.6.2.3/t' > make[1]: *** [test] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/foo/git-core-1.6.2.3' > make: *** [build-arch-stamp] Error 2 > Build command 'cd git-core-1.6.2.3 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. > E: Child process failed git's test suite fails when run as root, since it checks that git properly errors out on encountering a repository it cannot access. The relevant tests should probably be skipped when run as root, but it is easy to work around the problem by building as an unprivileged user. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
