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Subject: [bug#36692] test failures
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> On 16. Jul 2019, at 18:28, Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net> writes:
>=20
>> I was able to run both tests from the build directory in /tmp,
>> and they both passed fine. Also they both involve user ids, I
>> suspect those might differ in the build container?
>>=20
>> main =3D do
>>    void $ forkIO $ forever $ getGroupEntryForID 0
>>    void $ forkIO $ forever $ getGroupEntryForID 0
>>    threadDelay (3*1000*1000)
>>=20
>> main =3D do
>>    root <- getUserEntryForName "root"
>>    putStrLn (ue2String root)
>>    root' <- getUserEntryForID (userID root)
>>    putStrLn (ue2String root')
>>    if homeDirectory root =3D=3D homeDirectory root' &&
>>       userShell     root =3D=3D userShell     root'
>>        then putStrLn "OK"
>>        else putStrLn =E2=80=9CMismatch"
>=20
> The only reliable user ID available in the build container is 'nobody'
> with UID and GID 65534 and the (see nix/libstore/build.cc:1862).
>=20
> You can likely patch these tests to refer to that instead.

I chose to skip them instead =E2=80=94 specializing them to nobody/65534 =
doesn=E2=80=99t
seem helpful in the end.