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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add obnam.
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Marius Bakke |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add obnam. |
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Sat, 11 Mar 2017 19:10:06 +0100 |
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Arun Isaac <address@hidden> writes:
>> I noticed this program and some of the libraries it uses, requires a
>> package called "CoverageTestRunner" to run unit tests. Currently tests
>> are simply skipped.
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> I tried packaging the tests too. But, the tests require the root user
> and group to be present. The build environment does not have the root
> user and group. So, the tests fail. Can anything be done about this?
There is one user available in the build environment: "nobody". It could
work to substitute "root" for "nobody" in the code that looks for users.
The "mailutils" package does exactly that for tests. Can you try it?
TIA!
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