Bug#728304: for schroot backend allow to run tests as user while installation steps as root

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Martin Pitt <martin at piware.de> wrote:

>Hello Yaroslav,
>
>Yaroslav Halchenko [2013-10-30  8:48 -0400]:
>> Adding user's login to root-users configuration of schroot allows 
>autopkgtest
>> to invoke apt-get with necessary privileges, but then tests also run
>> under root user, instead of the original user
>
>Please note that you can have this behaviour with the current
>autopkgtest if you explicitly specify the "--user $USER" adt-run
>option. Then it'll use root to install dependencies and $USER to run
>tests. There already was a test to make sure that works, I just
>committed some extended tests that also make sure that dependency
>installation still works with --user, and that "needs-root" is
>respected properly.
Great, thank you for detailed response

>
>Indeed the test gets run as root if you call adt-run as normal user
>with the schroot runner. It should default to running them as the
>calling user instead. I'll devote this bug report to this.

Thanks again

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