This could be easily tested with a disk image, for example. Mount a read/write disk image, get info, choose 'ignore permissions' (looks like it is default) and try to install fink. It does indeed fail:

This first test is designed to die, so please ignore the error
message on the next line.
# Looks like your test died before it could output anything.
./00compile.................ok
./Base/initialize...........ok
./Base/param................ok
./Base/param_boolean........ok
./Command/cat...............ok
./Command/chowname..........ok 1/0# Failed test (./Command/chowname.t at line 27)
# got: 'ben'
./Command/chowname..........NOK 2# expected: 'nobody'
./Command/chowname..........ok 4/0# Failed test (./Command/chowname.t at line 34)
./Command/chowname..........NOK 5# got: 'unknown'
# expected: 'nobody'
./Command/chowname..........ok 7/0# Failed test (./Command/chowname.t at line 43)
./Command/chowname..........NOK 8# got: 'ben'
# expected: 'nobody'
# Failed test (./Command/chowname.t at line 44)
# got: 'unknown'
# expected: 'nobody'
./Command/chowname..........NOK 9# Looks like you failed 4 tests of 9.
./Command/chowname..........dubious
Test returned status 4 (wstat 1024, 0x400)
DIED. FAILED tests 2, 5, 8-9
Failed 4/9 tests, 55.56% okay
./Command/commands..........ok
./Command/exports...........ok
./Command/failure...........ok
./Command/touch.............ok
./Config/exports............ok
./Config/failure............ok
./Config/load_save..........ok
./Config/options............ok
./Config/param..............ok
./Config/verbosity_level....ok
./FinkVersion/exports.......ok
./FinkVersion/version.......ok
./Mirror/exports............ok
./PkgVersion/get_perl.......ok
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------
./Command/chowname.t 4 1024 9 4 44.44% 2 5 8-9
Failed 1/20 test scripts, 95.00% okay. 4/482 subtests failed, 99.17% okay.
make: *** [test] Error 1
### execution of make failed, exit code 2
compiling fink-0.18.0.cvs-20040111.2118 failed



-Ben


On Jan 10, 2004, at 6:20 AM, David R. Morrison wrote:

We need our testing guru to come back and help us out here...




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