> On Jan 16, 2017, at 11:37, Scott Hannahs <shann...@users.sourceforge.net> > wrote: > > I have a question and maybe an issue for the fink cognoscenti. > > I maintain a package (duplicity) for doing encrypted backups that has an > extensive testing phase. That testing phase is failing under fink. However > during that testing, the routines unpack a tar.gz file to create a directory > structure for backing up and restoring. > > In looking at the files, they seem to have the user/group ownership of the > tar file and not fink-bld. I find several other files such as byte compiled > python files to have ownership as root and not as fink-bld. There are a > couple of test scripts that end up as fink-bld as the owner but wheel as the > group. > > If the testing phase were executed as root, then it would unpack the tar file > as the original owner and not use fink-bld as the owner. If the following > command is done: > sudo -u fink-bld tar xzf testfiles.tar.gz > > Then it will unpack the files as the correct owner/group for testing. But of > course the distributed test script does not hardwire in a fink-bld user for > testing. > > Is this a fink issue? I was just trying to get my updated package to pass > the testing phase. > > -Scott >
Do the tests work if you use “fink -m --no-build-as-nobody build” ? If so, then you might use BuildAsNobody: false in the .info file so that fink builds as root instead of fink-bld. The tradeoff is that the build isn’t quite as safe. If the build works without the test phase, another option might be just to have a note that testing needs to be done as root, since end-users generally aren’t expected to run tests. However, this would probably mean that auto-build scripts for the binary distribution won’t work, whereas they would when building as root. Ideally, of course, there would be a way to force the test scripts to work as fink-bld, but this might not be possible. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
