The warning makes sense since it is skipping some tests. I'm asking more how we can avoid skipping those tests on non-Debian distros, without writing lots more Julia code.
On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 10:55:52 AM UTC-7, Keno Fischer wrote: > > 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] > <javascript:>> 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? >>>> >>> >>> >
