On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 04:07:52AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
I disagree with the conclusion. Why not make it a little easier to
build git however a person is used to building packages, especially
“debuild binary” is implemented as shorthand for “fakeroot debian/rules
binary”.
I think
Applied all three patches, still seeing a failure (below).
Regards, Faheem.
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Faheem Mitha wrote:
Ok, will retest and let you know.
Much appreciated, thanks.
Removing docs/
Removing foo/
Removing
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Faheem Mitha wrote:
Um, to be clear, i ran 'debuild binary' as normal user, as I always
do, to get the error you saw. 'debuild binary' uses fakeroot. Not
sure what you mean by 'run tests as root'. My understanding of the
thread you pointed me to
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:43:00PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
retitle 579273 Test suite fails when run as root
Faheem Mitha wrote:
* FAIL 24: init notices EPERM
If you follow the link above, you can find a patch for this. Alternatively,
as a workaround, make sure you are not root
Hi Gerrit,
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Gerrit Pape wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:43:00PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
retitle 579273 Test suite fails when run as root
Faheem Mitha wrote:
* FAIL 24: init notices EPERM
If you follow the link above, you can find a patch for this.
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:50:43PM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Gerrit Pape wrote:
I personally don't think running the selftests as non-root is a
workaround, but strongly recommended. For every software project,
'make' should run with as less permissions as possible
Hi Faheem,
Faheem Mitha wrote:
I applied the patch you pointed me to, namely
diff -r cce2e3ed57a1 -r b6a12d78e4e6 t/test-lib.sh
--- a/t/test-lib.sh Fri Apr 30 12:00:32 2010 +0530
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh Fri Apr 30 12:20:30 2010 +0530
@@ -775,7 +775,10 @@
# exec does not
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Hi Faheem,
Faheem Mitha wrote:
I applied the patch you pointed me to, namely
diff -r cce2e3ed57a1 -r b6a12d78e4e6 t/test-lib.sh
--- a/t/test-lib.sh Fri Apr 30 12:00:32 2010 +0530
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh Fri Apr 30 12:20:30 2010 +0530
@@
Hi Gerrit and Faheem,
Gerrit Pape wrote:
Faheem Mitha wrote:
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Gerrit Pape wrote:
For every software project,
'make' should run with as less permissions as possible (ideally in a
sandbox ;), and root permissions should only be used where really
required (usually 'make
Faheem Mitha wrote:
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Faheem Mitha wrote:
I applied the patch you pointed me to, namely
diff -r cce2e3ed57a1 -r b6a12d78e4e6 t/test-lib.sh
--- a/t/test-lib.sh Fri Apr 30 12:00:32 2010 +0530
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh Fri Apr 30 12:20:30 2010 +0530
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Faheem Mitha wrote:
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Faheem Mitha wrote:
I applied the patch you pointed me to, namely
diff -r cce2e3ed57a1 -r b6a12d78e4e6 t/test-lib.sh
--- a/t/test-lib.sh Fri Apr 30 12:00:32 2010 +0530
+++
Package: git-core
Version: 1.7.0.4-1
Severity: normal
This version of git failed to build on lenny, though build
dependencies were satisfied.
Errors appear below.
Regards, Faheem
**
fatal: cannot mkdir
retitle 579273 Test suite fails when run as root
reassign 579273 src:git git/1:1.7.0.4-1
reassign 524309 src:git git/1:1.6.2.3-1
severity 524309 normal
merge 524309 579273
tags 524309 + patch
forwarded 524309 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/145427
thanks
Hi Faheem,
Faheem
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Hi Faheem,
Faheem Mitha wrote:
* FAIL 24: init notices EPERM
If you follow the link above, you can find a patch for this. Alternatively,
as a workaround, make sure you are not root when running tests.
Thanks for writing,
Jonathan
Hi
Hi Faheem,
Faheem Mitha wrote:
Thanks for the quick response. Is the patch going to be applied to
the Debian package? If I understand the thread and your response
correctly, this patch would make the package build when using
fakeroot. Usage of fakeroot is standard in Debian, afaik. At least,
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Hi Faheem,
Faheem Mitha wrote:
Thanks for the quick response. Is the patch going to be applied to
the Debian package? If I understand the thread and your response
correctly, this patch would make the package build when using
fakeroot. Usage of
Faheem Mitha wrote:
Um, to be clear, i ran 'debuild binary' as normal user, as I always
do, to get the error you saw. 'debuild binary' uses fakeroot. Not
sure what you mean by 'run tests as root'. My understanding of the
thread you pointed me to was fakeroot was 'root-like' enough to
upset
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