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

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2013-06-04 at 13:48 +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?

Absolutely not.

>  Or should this be made configurable (or auto-detected)?

You must not break a machine just to do make test.

I often do make test, then make rpms and install rpms, I *never*
directly install on my development machine or VMs, I always go through
RPM in order to keep the system clean, and tests repeatable.

ipa-getkeytab specifically do not need root to be tested so I really do
not see that copying over a system path would ever be a good idea.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York