From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add obnam. Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 19:10:06 +0100 Message-ID: <87mvcrk7lt.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <20170309172742.13827-1-arunisaac@systemreboot.net> <87wpbwkf3n.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cmlT4-0001ss-EA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:10:15 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cmlSz-0003Mf-Gy for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:10:14 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:47732) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cmlSz-0003L8-84 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:10:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Arun Isaac , guix-devel --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Arun Isaac 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! --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEu7At3yzq9qgNHeZDoqBt8qM6VPoFAljEPX4ACgkQoqBt8qM6 VPrxUQgAj1HLxjkyVJf12edLfRM9FtTtkFiDHOd8bfPAwo6/aF1+LteneABg+UC1 1WzYFJkdpcd5TZszb3JvNyziB1IXoySqopiecwYa/n0Ui3QKkjSxy4y68Luvu2jw t+J+KbUJDiG/IQSkoi/2tRppEspbaUdtGbyq1Di99TqXt/uCAWtxLEHDMIPq3ukA RyFow39PCSCijEeej2EPYFzA4HKC+RaCG2/i7z8CoSv+7JeJ2aoy9sjgigjIgV/G MwjvEZWAdijXfmixW2UVJ9L6hQ4Sj9cmXEPPgJmExYyuree88Trdi0QQLDrHQ87V K1rzYhASuNMPV3LKzLVwpZf1oHlfwA== =y/sc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--