From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Fabio D'Alfonso <fabio.dalfonso@fabiodalfonso•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: t5539 fails on ubuntu for v2.0.0-rc2
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 14:08:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy4yavewk.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20140509155945.GG18197@sigill.intra.peff.net
Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
> Does running the tests as a non-root user fix it? If so, I think we have
> a few options in git:
>
> 1. Add a User directive to our httpd.conf. I doubt this is a good
> idea to do unconditionally, as a non-root apache would probably be
> unhappy with it.
>
> 2. Add a User directive when we detect that the tests are running as
> root. This might work, but I'm a bit iffy, as we do not know the
> appropriate username for the system (e.g., "nobody" versus
> "www-data" versus something else).
>
> 3. Just disable the http tests when run as root.
>
> I think I'd favor 3. But I'd like to be sure that being root is the
> problem.
I agree with both the conclusion and the precondition.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-09 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-07 19:56 t5539 fails on ubuntu for v2.0.0-rc2 Fabio D'Alfonso
2014-05-07 21:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-08 4:14 ` Jeff King
2014-05-08 6:02 ` Fabio D'Alfonso
2014-05-08 14:13 ` Fabio D'Alfonso
2014-05-09 15:59 ` Jeff King
2014-05-09 16:43 ` Fabio D'Alfonso
2014-05-09 21:08 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-05-10 14:02 ` Jeff King
2014-05-14 10:14 ` Jeff King
2014-05-14 17:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-14 19:33 ` Jeff King
2014-05-08 21:36 ` t5539 fails on ubuntu for v2.0.0-rc2 - the SAME on 12.04 server Fabio D'Alfonso
2014-05-09 8:39 ` t5539 fails on ubuntu for v2.0.0-rc2 - the SAME on 12.04 server - this test was disabled up to 1.9.2 Fabio D'Alfonso
2014-05-09 15:50 ` Jeff King
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