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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Scanner: mx11.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -7.24 X-Spam-Score: -7.24 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: A93E895C4D X-TUID: hE2lbKGmeuGe --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 45mg <45mg.writes@gmail.com> writes: > The only approach I'm aware of is to just ignore such tests. Examples of > this I've seen: > > mdadm: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/linux.scm#n5= 943 > borg: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/backup.scm#n= 739 > rdiff-backup: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/backup.scm#n= 540 > maradns: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/dns.scm#n1197 > hostscope: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/monitoring.s= cm#n698 > python-path: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/python-xyz.s= cm#n17458 > python-executing: > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/python-xyz.s= cm#n11112 > > I haven't been able to find a single instance of tests requiring root > that we /don't/ skip. (But then, I don't really know how to look, > either...) > > Surely there must be a way to do this? Sure there is. The one I found is horrific though. In my channel I packaged acme-client (Let's Encrypt client ported from OpenBSD), and root is required for the tests. I resolved to using bubblewrap to pretend I am a root. You can see all the eye-cancer causing details here[0]. Tomas 0: https://git.wolfsden.cz/wolfsden/tree/wolfsden/packages/tls.scm#n76 =2D-=20 There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJCBAEBCgAsFiEEt4NJs4wUfTYpiGikL7/ufbZ/wakFAmd1zTgOHH5Ad29sZnNk ZW4uY3oACgkQL7/ufbZ/wamqkhAAlpQRS9YkpOYY/HTr0nDntemEmXh6FGgpoJmp qK7tOc4/v/uKdBQt1V3vqlHxrmOoPoQhpsQT4SwzpBPKA1IQDfPhpU2fFnekb/u4 z++i4QChXdWQ75dw3f2bSuWzIpwWpF60C1Dq0TlgZoTW7ffhu0tKKgpcibiuyxwJ XGiskIFndfhlpfh5TEawPj2wKsGurin1cDwpXvI60PDTwkIaC+06dfqNqsV+T83Y jHqBexcKTM/BoBSMPKX+5zboSA9spSP1tWJDn1vwtEci5JQbG+q7XdY9oq3A4iSh uEa85Qu9XJeVVmSua7HP2kyqaoVtwVZNLvt7FSFYW1YOK7Haz2nkcI1G468l5HRr nH/ScNg9d52iavRliTTpLM5hgMJVYlmqI0eGRaE5LugZhEpFC4Frg+fj6tJmXo2d zhth8ZiukskYdK4PJHirrAXEM03OgfrRsnhN8kQ6zlRbH4Zqd7aV0S8GHip/Sjy4 LFJSOOb58YsJzrGXDUEWyHBc3Yqxmdi1bQPB1wMauTicW7IEvFD/EmN/gu3fuv6d eFwTSMsFEyQr6xeqEd8yW2XUKNQbwDyBUOQsA2ylR4EzqgHnXWpqWrvVCZdKuxXi PqyN9AkNtznZiZvaqjy8HqjErO29AgW3Ti0jjK2Md8DlH8ZGt7MRPZZgOUeUJY6g P98DsCo= =Z+U2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--