Re: [Fink-devel] Fink install tests.

[Andrea R. <ari...@pi...>]

Thanks to both of you for the explainations.

Cheers,
	Andrea.

On 30 Aug 2004, at 11:51, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:

> On Aug 30, 2004, at 4:30 AM, Andrea Riciputi wrote:
>> ./Command/du_sk........................ok
>>         1/6 skipped: can't test permission errors as root
>
> Hi Andrea,
>
> We have various commands in Fink::Command which are perl versions of 
> common shell commands. The command 'du_sk' should work just like 'du 
> -sk'. To test it I have mostly tests that are expected to succeed, but 
> it's always good to have a test that's expected to fail--and the 
> easiest way to make 'du' fail non-trivially is to cause a permission 
> error. Permissions don't apply when you're testing as root, so the 
> test is just disabled in that case. No harm done, behavior expected, 
> nothing for a user of Fink to worry about. :-)
>
> Dave