On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:47:46PM +0200, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 07/27/2012 12:31 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
> > Maybe, but many of the tests requires root permissions and it's
> > designed for developers only. I'd like to avoid situations when the
> > tests are executed with root permissions by automatic distro build
> > systems etc.
>
> Why? The more folks run the tests, the more bugs can be reported and fixed.
> What's wrong about the tests? And if there's something wrong: shouldn't
> they not be made more robust?
>
> E.g. coreutils also has many tests which "require_root", and I think
> it's safe to run these tests.
Does the tests modify /etc/fstab, mount another filesystems and
initialize scsi_debug, loop and raid devices?
I have experience that some distros and end-users rebuild packages
as superuser. I don't want to be responsible for possible problems on
the target systems.
Karel
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