Bug 263797

Summary:	sys-libs/db-4.7.25_p3 fails tests as root
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nick Fortino <nfortino>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) <caleb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	base-system, flameeyes, pauldv
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	db-fop002.patch

Description Nick Fortino 2009-03-25 22:27:21 UTC

One of the (many) tests in the test suite checks if db handles the case of not having proper file permissions to perform operations on the database. This fails by design when run as root.

Comment 1 Nick Fortino 2009-03-25 22:29:26 UTC

Created attachment 186273 [details, diff]
db-fop002.patch

A patch to skip the offending test. Someone more familiar with tcl could probably come up with a better test for whether the process has root permissions.

Comment 2 Robin Johnson archtester

2010-05-03 22:03:57 UTC

Just changed src_test to not run the testsuite as root, because I suspect other tests may fail too.