From: Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:07:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: If we're not root and the "fakeroot" command is available, use it
X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/commitdiff_plain/648859bda2ecf1ed112277b05adc1430c72747c1

If we're not root and the "fakeroot" command is available, use it
to re-run the script while pretending to be root.
---

diff --git a/testsuite/chown.test b/testsuite/chown.test
index 755ffdf8..8f3a3e08 100644
--- a/testsuite/chown.test
+++ b/testsuite/chown.test
@@ -15,6 +15,15 @@
 
 set -x
 
+case `id -u` in
+'') ;; # If "id" failed, try to continue...
+0)  ;;
+*)  if [ -f /usr/bin/fakeroot ]; then
+	exec /usr/bin/fakeroot /bin/sh "$0"
+    fi
+    ;;
+esac
+
 # Build some hardlinks
 
 mkdir "$fromdir"
diff --git a/testsuite/devices.test b/testsuite/devices.test
index 3e8f4077..4401572e 100644
--- a/testsuite/devices.test
+++ b/testsuite/devices.test
@@ -13,8 +13,12 @@
 
 case `id -u` in
 '') ;; # If "id" failed, try to continue...
-0) ;;
-*) test_skipped "Rsync won't copy devices unless we're root" ;;
+0)  ;;
+*)  if [ -f /usr/bin/fakeroot ]; then
+	exec /usr/bin/fakeroot /bin/sh "$0"
+    fi
+    test_skipped "Rsync won't copy devices unless we're root"
+    ;;
 esac
 
 # TODO: Need to test whether hardlinks are possible on this OS/filesystem