Though we should try to make them more flexible to run on distributions that have them in non-Debian locations. Is there an alternative way we can get those tests to run via an executable that can run as non-root on openSUSE?
On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 7:39:42 AM UTC-7, Keno Fischer wrote: > > The tests that are being bypassed are for functionality of the package > manager's SSH client capability for git clone over SSH. So yes, those tests > are bypassed if ssh is not available, but is shouldn't be a big problem as > long as SSH clone runs ok. I think the more important aspect of those tests > is that they run on CI to make sure we don't accidentally break the various > ways to clone over SSH. > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 2:40 AM, Colin Beckingham <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I always run Julia as non-root, so there is not much surprise when "make >> testall" says it cannot find sshd, which on openSUSE lives in /usr/sbin and >> is not accessible by non-root due to permissions. Testall by normal user >> bypasses the related test and continues to success. Attempting to run Julia >> as root to allow this test to run results in error in testing libgit2 since >> no keys are set up. I'm not worrying about this until I have good reason to >> run Julia in root. Does the fact that openSUSE makes sshd unavailable to >> non-root users bypass some important tests? >> > >
