Iain Lane <la...@debian.org> writes: > at all. Thus, if HOME is not writable and an application uses the > registry, the build will fail.
Gah. Thanks for getting to the bottom of it; I've run afoul of such bugs in the past as well, and they're always a nuisance because the only possible workaround is ugly LD_PRELOAD hackery. > I'm assigning a clone to mono, and I suggested to hyperair that, until > this bug is fixed, we should disable the tests in gstreamer-sharp. That sounds reasonable. You could perhaps also conditionalize them on the "official" home directory's writeability, if that's not too much trouble. Thanks! -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?a...@monk.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org