Using fakeroot or fakechroot as the command with subprocess.call prevents the detection and reporting of a missing pacman binary. Some tests even pass when run with a non-existent binary. Checking manually allows us to provide a meaningful error message and prevent the false positives.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <[email protected]> --- test/pacman/pactest.py | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/test/pacman/pactest.py b/test/pacman/pactest.py index b2b9c28..cba439c 100755 --- a/test/pacman/pactest.py +++ b/test/pacman/pactest.py @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def create_parser(): help = "set debug level for pacman") parser.add_option("-p", "--pacman", action = "callback", callback = resolve_binary_path, type = "string", - dest = "bin", default = "pacman", + dest = "bin", default = util.which("pacman"), help = "specify location of the pacman binary") parser.add_option("--keep-root", action = "store_true", dest = "keeproot", default = False, @@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ def create_parser(): opt_parser = create_parser() (opts, args) = opt_parser.parse_args() + if opts.bin is None or not os.access(opts.bin, os.X_OK): + tap.bail("cannot locate pacman binary") + sys.exit(2) + # instantiate env root_path = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='pactest-') env = pmenv.pmenv(root=root_path) -- 2.0.1
