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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.

  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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