Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:11:45AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Real or fake makes no difference. Anything that test id or file
permissions will (hopefully) behave the same with fakeroot.
Wrong; otherwise there wouldn't be packages who fail to
[Goswin von Brederlow]
Do they fail when you use sudo instead of fakeroot or when you run the
complete build process as root?
The usual reason a package fails with sudo is that it assumes the
$(PWD) macro will be available, pointing to the current working
directory. sudo does not preserve
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[Goswin von Brederlow]
Do they fail when you use sudo instead of fakeroot or when you run the
complete build process as root?
The usual reason a package fails with sudo is that it assumes the
$(PWD) macro will be available, pointing to the current
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:11:45AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Real or fake makes no difference. Anything that test id or file
permissions will (hopefully) behave the same with fakeroot.
Wrong; otherwise there wouldn't be packages who fail to build when root
is, in fact, root, as happens
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:53:32PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can also note why bazaar wont build as root: its test suite
includes a test for the ability to handle read only directories
correctly. As
Peter Samuelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can also note why bazaar wont build as root: its test suite
includes a test for the ability to handle read only directories
correctly. As root, anything is writable, so this test fails.
[Goswin von
Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:53:32PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can also note why bazaar wont build as root: its test suite
includes a test for the ability to handle read only directories
correctly. As root, anything
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 23:16 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:02:22AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
While I fully agree with you on all points, I think that this should be
discussed post-etch with the general question of in which environment
are packages supposed to
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 23:16 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:02:22AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
While I fully agree with you on all points, I think that this should be
discussed post-etch with the general question of in which
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can also note why bazaar wont build as root: its test suite
includes a test for the ability to handle read only directories
correctly. As root, anything is writable, so this test fails.
[Goswin von Brederlow]
That test should add a test for root
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:53:32PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can also note why bazaar wont build as root: its test suite
includes a test for the ability to handle read only directories
correctly. As root, anything is writable, so this
(Cced the relevant bug report)
On 31/10/06 at 23:50 -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
Some packages (e.g choose-mirror) fetch a newer version of a file during
build if it's possible to fetch that file. I don't think this is RC,
since the file is not missing from the
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:02:22AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
While I fully agree with you on all points, I think that this should be
discussed post-etch with the general question of in which environment
are packages supposed to build ?. There are other similar issue, like:
- should packages
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