On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 15:45:50 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Sun, 2014-10-12 at 11:11 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > > I have a question about how to run tests for a package needing root to > > > run properly, fakeroot is not sufficient. I've made one of the packages > > > to build properly with: sudo run_test and fixed the sudoers file. But > > > how to fix that so the package can be built on a buildd? > > > > Which package is this, why do the tests require root and why is > > fakeroot not sufficient? > > The package is libgnome-keyring 3.12.0-1 on GNU/Hurd. Hurd is more > restrictive than GNU/Linux on mlock()/munlock(), so you have to be root > for the tests: (This is the same problem as for kFreeBSD in #628383) > egg/tests/test-secmem > library/tests/test-memory > > The tests pass and the package builds fine with the two tests above run > as root. Currently it is flagged as FTBFS due to this issue. > If that means you need to run your gnome session as root in order to get mlocked secrets, maybe the tests failing is a good thing, and somebody should fix Hurd instead. Cheers, Julien
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