From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>, guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add obnam.
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 19:10:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvcrk7lt.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cu7poho4fq7.fsf@systemreboot.net>
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Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> writes:
>> I noticed this program and some of the libraries it uses, requires a
>> package called "CoverageTestRunner" to run unit tests. Currently tests
>> are simply skipped.
>
> I tried packaging the tests too. But, the tests require the root user
> and group to be present. The build environment does not have the root
> user and group. So, the tests fail. Can anything be done about this?
There is one user available in the build environment: "nobody". It could
work to substitute "root" for "nobody" in the code that looks for users.
The "mailutils" package does exactly that for tests. Can you try it?
TIA!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-11 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-09 17:27 [PATCH] gnu: Add obnam Arun Isaac
2017-03-10 21:15 ` Marius Bakke
2017-03-11 4:09 ` Arun Isaac
2017-03-11 18:10 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2017-03-12 7:55 ` Arun Isaac
2017-03-17 21:40 ` Arun Isaac
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