[pacman-dev] Test suite failures using fakechroot-2.17.1

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Fri Dec 13 19:05:30 EST 2013


On 14/12/13 04:27, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> On 12/14/13 at 12:38am, Allan McRae wrote:
>> On 13/12/13 22:43, Allan McRae wrote:
>>> Using fakechroot-2.17.1 from the Arch [testing] repo, I get 4 pactest
>>> failures.   All appear to be due to install scriptlets failing.  The
>>> ldconfig tests work so the _alpm_run_chroot commands work.
>>>
>>> I think it has something to do with symlinks and the shell...   The
>>> guilty upstream commit is 52502dbbb - "It is safe to use relative paths
>>> which won't escape from fake chroot".
>>>
>>> Can someone help figuring out whether this is a pacman testsuite issue
>>> or a fakechroot issue?
>>>
>>
> 
> Calling chroot with a trailing slash was causing the problem.  Patch
> submitted upstream: https://github.com/dex4er/fakechroot/pull/14
> 

Awesome!

Thanks,
A




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