[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-cdr/cdrdao: ChangeLog cdrdao-1.2.2-r3.ebuild

[Ryan Hill]

On Mon, 11 May 2009 23:29:10 +1200
Alistair Bush <ali_bush@g.o> wrote:

> I would assume it would be better to directly test whether the user is
> root, than test that userpriv is set?

AFAIK:

if [[ ${EUID} -eq 0 ]]; then
  rootstuff
else
  nonrootstuff
fi

But for tests that fail with userpriv just because they don't have the proper
permissions you can usually just use a -r or -w test.
( eg. [[ -w ${S}/testdir/runtestsdir ]] || skiptest )

Bonus points for patching this into the test itself and getting it upstream.


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