[issue17758] test_site fails when the user does not have a home directory

STINNER Victor added the comment: Everything is possible. It's just a matter of priorities. Do you want to work on a patch. I'm not really interested. If you consider that it'd worth, open a new issue. I close this issue since the iniyal bug is closed. -- __

[issue17758] test_site fails when the user does not have a home directory

koobs added the comment: @Victor, it would be nice if this test could instead use/fake/mock what it needs in the build directory, or is this not possible because it needs an 'actual' user/group context to work? -- nosy: +koobs ___ Python tracker

[issue17758] test_site fails when the user does not have a home directory

STINNER Victor added the comment: "Unfixed for 2 years. How about skipping the test if os.makedirs(site.USER_SITE) fails?" Let's do that ;-) @Christian: Feel free to open a new issue if you have a solution to not write outside temporary directories in test_site ;-) @doko: Thanks for the bug

[issue17758] test_site fails when the user does not have a home directory

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 1a40ee2bad6a by Victor Stinner in branch '2.7': Skip test_site if USER_SITE cannot be created https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1a40ee2bad6a -- ___ Python tracker

[issue17758] test_site fails when the user does not have a home directory

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 0a583e60c406 by Victor Stinner in branch '3.5': Skip test_site if USER_SITE cannot be created https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0a583e60c406 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue17758] test_site fails when the user does not have a home directory

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Unfixed for 2 years. How about skipping the test if os.makedirs(site.USER_SITE) fails? -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue17758] test_site fails when the user does not have a home directory

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[issue17758] test_site fails when the user does not have a home directory

Christian Heimes added the comment: Don't be scared ... :) I'll think about a solution. -- assignee: -> christian.heimes ___ Python tracker ___

[issue17758] test_site fails when the user does not have a home directory

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: As a sidenote, I find it a bit scary that test_site even *tries* to create USER_SITE. The test suite shouldn't touch anything outside of test-specific temp files. -- nosy: +christian.heimes, pitrou type: enhancement -> behavior versions: +Python 2.7 _

[issue17758] test_site fails when the user does not have a home directory

New submission from Matthias Klose: seen when running the testsuite as user nobody, with test_site fails when the user's home directory does not exist, and is not creatable (e.g. /nonexistent). FAILED (failures=3) test test_pydoc failed Re-running test 'test_site' in verbose mode test test_site