Re: Fink testing
Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
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> On Jan 16, 2017, at 11:37, Scott Hannahs <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a question and maybe an issue for the fink cognoscenti. > > I maintain a package (duplicity) for doing encrypted backups that has an extensive testing phase. That testing phase is failing under fink. However during that testing, the routines unpack a tar.gz file to create a directory structure for backing up and restoring. > > In looking at the files, they seem to have the user/group ownership of the tar file and not fink-bld. I find several other files such as byte compiled python files to have ownership as root and not as fink-bld. There are a couple of test scripts that end up as fink-bld as the owner but wheel as the group. > > If the testing phase were executed as root, then it would unpack the tar file as the original owner and not use fink-bld as the owner. If the following command is done: > sudo -u fink-bld tar xzf testfiles.tar.gz > > Then it will unpack the files as the correct owner/group for testing. But of course the distributed test script does not hardwire in a fink-bld user for testing. > > Is this a fink issue? I was just trying to get my updated package to pass the testing phase. > > -Scott > Do the tests work if you use “fink -m --no-build-as-nobody build” ? If so, then you might use BuildAsNobody: false in the .info file so that fink builds as root instead of fink-bld. The tradeoff is that the build isn’t quite as safe. If the build works without the test phase, another option might be just to have a note that testing needs to be done as root, since end-users generally aren’t expected to run tests. However, this would probably mean that auto-build scripts for the binary distribution won’t work, whereas they would when building as root. Ideally, of course, there would be a way to force the test scripts to work as fink-bld, but this might not be possible. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] List archive: https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel