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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Robin Rosenberg" <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] cvs tests: When root, skip tests that call "cvs commit"
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:26:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170227112628.10410-1-avarab@gmail.com> (raw)

Change the tests that fail to when we run the test suite as root, due
to calling "cvs commit".

The GNU cvs package has an optional compile-time CVS_BADROOT
flag. When compiled with this flag "cvs commit" will refuse to commit
anything as root. On my Debian box this isn't compiled in[1] in, but
on CentOS it is.

I've run all the t/t*cvs*.sh tests, and these are the only two that
fail. For some reason e.g. t9402-git-cvsserver-refs.sh still works as
root despite doing "cvs commit", I haven't dug into why.

This commit is technically being overzealous, we could do better by
making a mock cvs commit as root and run the tests if that works, but
I don't see any compelling reason to bend over backwards to run these
tests in all cases, just skipping them as root seems good enough.

1. Per: strings /usr/bin/cvs|grep 'is not allowed to commit'
   Using cvs 1.11.23 on CentOS, 1.12.13-MirDebian-18 on Debian.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 t/t9200-git-cvsexportcommit.sh | 5 +++++
 t/t9600-cvsimport.sh           | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/t/t9200-git-cvsexportcommit.sh b/t/t9200-git-cvsexportcommit.sh
index bb879a527d..1319415ba8 100755
--- a/t/t9200-git-cvsexportcommit.sh
+++ b/t/t9200-git-cvsexportcommit.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ then
     test_done
 fi
 
+if ! test_have_prereq NOT_ROOT; then
+	skip_all='When cvs is compiled with CVS_BADROOT commits as root fail'
+	test_done
+fi
+
 CVSROOT=$PWD/tmpcvsroot
 CVSWORK=$PWD/cvswork
 GIT_DIR=$PWD/.git
diff --git a/t/t9600-cvsimport.sh b/t/t9600-cvsimport.sh
index 4c384ff023..804ce3850f 100755
--- a/t/t9600-cvsimport.sh
+++ b/t/t9600-cvsimport.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 test_description='git cvsimport basic tests'
 . ./lib-cvs.sh
 
+if ! test_have_prereq NOT_ROOT; then
+	skip_all='When cvs is compiled with CVS_BADROOT commits as root fail'
+	test_done
+fi
+
 test_expect_success PERL 'setup cvsroot environment' '
 	CVSROOT=$(pwd)/cvsroot &&
 	export CVSROOT
-- 
2.11.0


             reply	other threads:[~2017-02-27 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-27 11:26 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2017-02-27 19:35 ` [PATCH] cvs tests: When root, skip tests that call "cvs commit" Junio C Hamano

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