From: Johannes Kastl <mail@johannes-kastl.de>
Subject: Re: Packaging gameoftrees for openSUSE: Are there any tests I should run?
To: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 09:57:11 +0100

Good morning Stefan,

On 04.01.25 08:55 Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 10:37:56AM +0100, Johannes Kastl wrote:
>> On 03.01.25 10:24 Stefan Sperling wrote:
>> > The tests need compiled binaries installed on the system because paths
>> > to helper programs, such as got-read-pack, are hard-coded in user-facing
>> > binaries, such as got and tog. You may have to generate RPMs and install
>> > them system-wide before the tests will run successfully.
>> 
>> This will be a problem, as AFAIK the build user does not have
>> permissions to install packages.
> 
> In this case, and on the buildservice specifically, perhaps a separate
> OBS project which runs just the tests and depends on the RPMs could work?

Thanks for the suggestion! I think I'll have a look at how the test
subpackages are being built for some python packages, this seems like
something that might solve this problem.

Kind Regards,
Johannes