Re: [Monotone-debian] Re: Please have a look at the odm.for-mtn-1.0 branch

[Richard Levitte]

In message <address@hidden> on Sat, 26 Feb 2011 05:58:59 +0100 (CET), Richard 
Levitte <address@hidden> said:

richard> In message <address@hidden> on Sat, 26 Feb 2011 05:49:24 +0100 (CET), 
Richard Levitte <address@hidden> said:
richard> 
richard> richard> In message <address@hidden> on Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:24:16 
+0000, Francis Russell <address@hidden> said:
richard> richard> 
richard> richard> francis> - When the build starts running the unit tests, I 
get the
richard> richard> francis>   following:
richard> richard> francis> 
richard> richard> francis> ./run_lua_tests
richard> richard> francis> This test suite cannot be run as the root user.
richard> richard> francis> Please try again with a normal user account.
richard> richard> 
richard> richard> *augh*
richard> richard> I've disabled checks for a while, so I missed that one...  
and that
richard> richard> message is the reason you have to have so convoluted ways to 
support
richard> richard> -A and -B (Reading to policy 4.9, it seems to encourage you 
to disable
richard> richard> the build target altogether and have building done through the
richard> richard> binary|binary-arch|binary-indep targets...  and 
dpkg-buildpackage does
richard> richard> that via fakeroot...  hence the error message.
richard> richard> Ooook, back to the older drawing.  And I though I was so 
clever...
richard> 
richard> Hold that thought, it might be a upstream problem...

No, it wasn't an upstream problem.

I solved this, not by going back in rules, but by disabling the
effects on fakeroot for certain build targets (via overrides), using a
script I wrote, called 'nofakeroot'.

See revision bfa37daabbec03c935dcce650f0a038b93e76019.

Cheers,
Richard

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