[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 0235 tests: Use ipa-getkeytab from /usr/sbin instead of the in-tree one

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 01:48:23PM +0200, Petr Viktorin wrote:
> Hardcoding the in-tree location for ipa-getkeytab makes testing
> outside the source tree impossible. This patch makes the tests use
> the installed location.
> 
> In other places the test suite assumes IPA is installed system-wide,
> even if running from the source tree.
> I know I frequently forget to run `make` before testing, which makes
> the ipa-getkeytab tests fail. So this patch would work well for me
> (and probably other Python devs), but I guess others might be used
> to `make test` checking what `make` built.
> 
> C developers, are you OK with e.g. adding `cp
> ipa-client/ipa-getkeytab /usr/sbin/ipa-getkeytab` to your testing
> workflow? Or should this be made configurable (or auto-detected)?

Will the environment running the test have access rights to do that
copy operation? Can't you just use PATH value (let PATH do its work)?

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Jan Pazdziora | adelton at #ipa*, #brno
Principal Software Engineer, Identity Management Engineering, Red Hat