On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Robin H. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > More than a year ago, I had my first occurrence of a package that > refused to work when run as root: dev-db/mysql. This lead to the following > block of code in the src_test block: > > if [[ $UID -eq 0 ]]; then > die "Testing with FEATURES=-userpriv is no longer supported by > upstream. Tests MUST be run as non-root." > fi > > The latest package to fall into the same trap is dev-util/git. With testcases > that are designed as expected failures, but pass when run as root, and the > testsuite says that the package is broken thusly. > > setup: > # mkdir d && > # touch d/f && > # chmod a-x d > expected failure test: > # stat d/f > > Having the if/die structure in src_test however is ugly, as if you are testing > lots of packages, and you miss it, then you get mucked over. I think that > there > are also other packages that NEED root to run their tests due to kernel > interaction (audit, cpu affinity iirc). > > Does anybody have suggestions on a better way of enforcing user/root for > src_test, instead of having a nasty die structure?
The opposite of RESTRICT=userpriv, eg. RESTRICT=root ;) -Alec > > -- > Robin Hugh Johnson > Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy > E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 >
