Pretend that the current user's uid/gid are the 'portage' uid/gid,

so things go smoothly regardless of the current user and global
user/group configuration.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pym/portage/tests/runTests b/pym/portage/tests/runTests
index a6f3b8f1c..9600f12a7 100755
--- a/pym/portage/tests/runTests
+++ b/pym/portage/tests/runTests
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@
 
 import os, sys
 import os.path as osp
+import grp
+
+# Pretend that the current user's uid/gid are the 'portage' uid/gid,
+# so things go smoothly regardless of the current user and global
+# user/group configuration.
+os.environ["PORTAGE_USERNAME"] = os.getlogin()
+os.environ["PORTAGE_GRPNAME"] = grp.getgrgid(os.getgid()).gr_name
 
 # Insert our parent dir so we can do shiny import "tests"
 # This line courtesy of Marienz and Pkgcore ;)