Well, we could write an ssh server in julia and just use that to test against, but who would want to do that ;). If it's just a matter of me having put a scary warning there, I guess we can take that out.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Tony Kelman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> >> 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? >>> >> >>
