Hi Dave, On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 03:26:42PM +0000, "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What I'm thinking is that a cautious packager could set it up so > that during the build qa/data wasn't readable, then having built and > copied their installation out, then they could perform a make check > having reenabled access to qa/data/ I wonder if this would be doable also at the current setup. Something like search for all "data" directories under */qa/, delete them, do the build, 'git checkout -f' to do undo the delete and then 'make check'? Regards, Miklos