[pacman-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] [pactest] Document fakeroot and fakechroot as dependencies

[Allan McRae]

On 01/02/13 13:24, Chirantan Ekbote wrote:
> Fixes FS#33551.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chirantan Ekbote <chirantan.ekbote at gmail.com>
> ---
>  test/pacman/README | 13 +++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/test/pacman/README b/test/pacman/README
> index e563379..9f1af7d 100644
> --- a/test/pacman/README
> +++ b/test/pacman/README
> @@ -52,8 +52,17 @@ Upon completion, it checks that:
>  Installation
>  ============
>  
> -Simply extract the pactest tarball, jump into the newly created directory and 
> -run pactest.py.  See the usage section below.
> +You will need to build and install two libraries before running any
> +tests.
> +
> +fakeroot
> +http://fakeroot.alioth.debian.org
> +
> +fakechroot
> +http://fakechroot.alioth.debian.org
> +
> +To test pacman simply extract the pactest tarball, jump into the newly
> +created directory and run pactest.py.  See the usage section below.
>  
>  Remark: pacman 3.x restrictions regarding fakeroot must be disabled.
>  It can be done by configuring pacman with the --disable-fakeroot flag:
> 

Committed to my working branch as this:

From: Chirantan Ekbote <chirantan.ekbote at gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Document fakeroot and fakechroot as dependencies

Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
---
 test/pacman/README | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/test/pacman/README b/test/pacman/README
index b6189d2..958ff28 100644
--- a/test/pacman/README
+++ b/test/pacman/README
@@ -63,6 +63,14 @@ Note: several "--test" options can be passed to pactest.
 Use the "help" option to get the full list of parameters:
 	./pactest.py --help

+The following pieces of software are required to run the pactest suite:
+
+fakeroot (required to run as non-root user)
+http://fakeroot.alioth.debian.org
+
+fakechroot
+http://fakechroot.alioth.debian.org
+

 Parameters
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1.8.1.2