On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:00 +0200, Walter Franzini wrote:
The problem is not related to compilation, but to the test suite. It
seems to me that the package is build by an user that belong to the
undefined group 1000 and this make aegis fails numerous tests.
Aegis doesn't like unknown users or unknown groups.
That has probably happened is the user build bot is logged in as has the
default group from the fourth column of the /etc/passwd file as 1000,
but that group does not appear in the /etc/group file. A second, less
likely, possibility is a file with its group set to a number which does
not appear in the /etc/group file.
This was once a bigger issue that it is not, because Aegis once stored
the _string_ of the GID in the meta-data.
We could add a simple program to the start of each test file which
checks for thinks Aegis really can't cope with -- like unlisted GIDs,
UIDs 100, etc -- and have the tests fail more gracefully in broken
environments. In the test_prelude, actually, which would be good reason
to update all of the test scripts to use it.
Regards
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