On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 12:05:58PM +0100, Predrag Ivanovic wrote: > On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 07:06:22 +0100 > Michal Privoznik wrote: > > >This is the problem. fakeroot tells the test that it is running under > >root user therefore it tries to access some dirs there (which is denied > >because of fakeroot). Well, we shouldn't mkdir() from our test suite > >neither - will look into that. > >BTW: why do you run tests under fakeroot? why not run them under your > >regular user? > > When I build the libvirt package (or any other package on the system), all stages (configure, make, make check, make install) run under fakeroot, > for security reasons and to catch if the port is broken so it tries to do something silly :) > I am OK making the exception and building libvirt as root, if that makes your life easier, though, > it's not that big of the deal. > Or I could just skip the 'make check' altogether, I haven't decided yet. You should *never* build libvirt as root, nor run tests as root. The libvirt code (and in fact any software package) should always be built as an unprivileged non-root user. The libvirt 'make check' should work as a non-privileged user too. Only the 'make install' step requires elevatd privileges, and that's only if you want to install into a privileged location like /usr or /opt. Even the install step can run unprivileged if using somewhere under $HOME as an install location. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
