Re: [libvirt PATCH] tests: Mock virGetUserRuntimeDirectory() for qemuhotplug

On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 14:09 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 02:30:16PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > Not mocking this function results in files being created in the > > user's home directory when running the test and in the build > > failing altogether inside a constrained environment such as the > > one used by pbuilder: > > What's pbuilder ? It's a tool used in Debian to verify that packages can be built successfully in a minimal environment that only contains the build dependencies that have been explicitly declared and where access to the network and the filesystem outside of the working directory is forbidden. I think the equivalent in the Fedora world is mock, but I haven't used the latter in person so I might be off-base :) > I wonder if we can make it so that in our > containers $HOME points to a non-writable directory such that > we can see this failure (and others) in our GitLab CI ? Yeah, I was thinking the same, and it definitely sounds like a good idea.