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authorPierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-05-30 18:22:47 +0000
committerPierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-05-30 18:22:47 +0000
commitae7f075dd6185f9ec93d5aedbb46e98511f25235 (patch)
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parentf4bb2af2e4b9c007a6e660409e9fd5670c3469df (diff)
Update to trunk r11877
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/cross-chap5@11878 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter06/bash.xml b/chapter06/bash.xml
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@@ -73,14 +73,21 @@
<para>Skip down to <quote>Install the
package</quote> if not running the test suite.</para>
- <para>To prepare the tests, ensure that the <systemitem class="username">nobody</systemitem> user can write to the sources tree:</para>
+ <para>To prepare the tests, ensure that the <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem> user can write to the sources tree:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv nobody .</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv tester .</userinput></screen>
<para>Now, run the tests as the <systemitem
- class="username">nobody</systemitem> user:</para>
+ class="username">tester</systemitem> user:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="test">su nobody -s /bin/bash -c "PATH=$PATH HOME=/home make tests"</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make tests"</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>The <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem>
+ user does not have enough permissions for all the tests to pass. This shows
+ up in some <quote>diff</quote> output in four test results. Portions of the
+ run-execscript, run-lastpipe, run-read, and run-test programs
+ are known to fail in the LFS chroot environment, but pass if the tests
+ are run in a full system.</para>
<para>Install the package and move the main executable to
<filename class='directory'>/bin</filename>:</para>