[blfs] 02/02: keyutils: don't run test suite in chroot environment

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commit a634e918701eea481108edefa5a89d106fd10638
Author: Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sun May 17 20:49:08 2026 +0800

    keyutils: don't run test suite in chroot environment
    
    Just got a bunch of failures on a host distro w/o keyutils installation.
---
 general/genlib/keyutils.xml | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/general/genlib/keyutils.xml b/general/genlib/keyutils.xml
index a8939ff8cd..498863d9da 100644
--- a/general/genlib/keyutils.xml
+++ b/general/genlib/keyutils.xml
@@ -120,10 +120,18 @@
       If <xref linkend='lsb-tools'/> is not installed, the test suite will
       output some lines complaining the <command>lsb_release</command>
       command not available but it won't affect the test result. The tests
-      are currently known to fail once it attempts to add user-generated keys
+      does not work in a chroot environment.
+      <!-- The kernel needs to invoke /sbin/request-key sometimes, so
+      running the test suite in a chroot environment will actually test
+      the host distro's request-key program.  Just don't do that.
+
+      The tests are currently known to fail once it attempts to add user-generated keys
       to the keyring.
-      <!-- I did verify that this occurs on other distros as well, and it seems
-      to be known at Gentoo.-->
+      I did verify that this occurs on other distros as well, and it seems
+      to be known at Gentoo.
+
+      Is this still a issue if we rule out running the test suite in
+      chroot? -->
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