On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 02:51:43PM -0400, Scott Talbert wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2020, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> > > Is there a recommended way for detecting when a package is being
> > > built under mock?  I have a package where some tests fail due to
> > > various things not being present in a mock container, e.g, /dev/log
> > > doesn't exist.  I can just disable these tests downstream, but
> > > upstream might take a change if I can wrap them in a "if !mock"
> > > condition.
> > 
> > Why not test for the presence of /dev/log before running such tests?
> 
> Well, in the particular case of that test, checking whether /dev/log exists
> *is* the test.
> 
Then it's a bug in the test. Since when /dev/log must exist on a system? You
can have various environments that are missing the socket. Mock is jist one of
them.

-- Petr

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