On Mon, 11 May 2009 08:42:45 -0700 Jameson Rollins wrote: > The behavior you are > seeing is actually expected, but we should maybe be more clear about > how to get around it. > > What you are seeing is a failure in the monkeysphere test harness, > which is called by dh_auto_test. As the error message says, the > failure in the test harness is caused by unacceptable permissions on > the TMPDIR being used by the test harness to test ssh connections. > The monkeysphere test harness builds up ssh client/server environments > to test monkeysphere-intermediated ssh connections. As required by > ssh, the directory tree of certain ssh files may not have "other" > writability. '/tmp' does have writability for "other", and therefore > the test is failing when the harness tries to build the ssh client > environment there and sees the improper permissions. > > The solution to this problem is to specify a TMPDIR that has proper > writability restictions for the user running the test harness.
IMHO the solution here would be not running this test. Even if you would fix the TMPDIR issue, buildds aren't supposed to have network access and I doubt a buildd admin would let you start a ssh server from your debian/rules anyways ;) Regards Evgeni -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
