Bug 348670 – net-analyzer/tcpdump-4.1.1: tries to access /var/lib/tcpdump during tests

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matt Turner 2010-12-14 02:59:04 UTC]

Weird thing is that I have app-arch/sharutils installed and it provides /usr/bin/uudecode. Maybe you can reproduce this?

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uudecode --help || (echo "No uudecode program found, not running tests"; echo "apt-get/rpm install sharutils?"; exit 1)
Usage: uudecode [FILE]...
"""

[Comment 1 Matt Turner 2011-06-07 21:18:29 UTC]

Still a bug...

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-07-18 11:33:13 UTC]

Every >=net-analyzer/tcpdump-4 DEPENDs on test? ( app-arch/sharutils ) and runs uudecode in the test phase. So either this was never a bug or it has been fixed since the time that you filed this report.

[Comment 3 Matt Turner 2011-07-19 16:50:29 UTC]

Created attachment 280389 [details]
build.log showing failure

[Comment 4 Matt Turner 2011-07-19 16:51:04 UTC]

The log actually shows other bugs as well, like

tcpdump: Couldn't chroot/chdir to '/var/lib/tcpdump': No such file or directory

[Comment 5 Matt Turner 2011-07-19 16:53:57 UTC]

Ah, I see that I was misinterpreting the `uudecode --help || (echo "No uudecode program found, not running tests"` as the actual error, when in fact the error is trying to access /var/lib/tcpdump during the tests.

[Comment 6 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2011-07-24 15:14:52 UTC]

Actually tests are really broken in this release... I guess it's better to postpone fixing this until next release.

[Comment 7 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-02-26 16:35:37 UTC]

I guess this no longer applies to 4.3.0.