Re: [PATCH v3 07/13] ci: fix setup of custom path for GitLab CI

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Apr 11, 2024, 10:06 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cR19_xdKx84xQ+7c4Cp6GzeOeHSit7-ujJJQ6gE=q+f_w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ef61b578da84dbd8087bf22c43029acf6983e547.1712825204.git.ps@pks.im>

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 5:10 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:

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> Part of "install-dependencies.sh" is to install some binaries required
> for tests into a custom directory that gets added to the PATH. This
> directory is located at "$HOME/path" and thus depends on the current
> user that the script executes as.
>
> This creates problems for GitLab CI, which installs dependencies as the
> root user, but runs tests as a separate, unprivileged user. As their
> respective home directories are different, we will end up using two
> different custom path directories. Consequently, the unprivileged user
> will not be able eto find the binaries that were setu up as root user.

s/eto/to/ s/setu/setup/

> Fix this issue by allowing CI to override the custom path, which allows
> GitLab to set up a constant value that isn't derived from "$HOME".
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