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. Alternatively,
as a workaround, make sure you are not root when running tests.
Hi Jonathan, Faheem,
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 (ideally in a
sandbox ;), and root permissions should only be used where really
required (usually 'make install'). My suggestion would be to make this
report wishlist, wontfix.
I think Debian packages are supposed to build using
debuild binary
I asked on #debian-mentors on oftc, and nobody disagreed with this
statement, though I don't know if it is Debian policy. Again, this is
using fakeroot as user, not really root. I'm don't really have any more
permissions then I would normally do - fakeroot doesn't magically grant
root permissions. I guess i could point #mentors or #devel to this bug and
ask for comments.
Has upstream already commented on this?
You mean git? Not to this bug report, and not directly to me.
Regards, Gerrit.
Regards, Faheem.
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