mergemaster failing with read-only /usr/src

[Will Andrews]

On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, I do build on that machine directly, and /usr/obj is mounted r/w,
>> only /usr/src is a read-only mount. Trying the workaround on the machine
>> istself does not help, unfortunately: while the "make buildenv" does
>> work without a problem, mergemaster still fails in the same way.
>
> I was going to move it to etc/tests soon since it wasn’t really testing /etc/rc.d/, but it makes more sense (with the issue above), just to create .../tests/etc, and move things there. I wish etc/ wasn’t such a special butterfly...

I'm not sure which is the better approach.

I guess you could argue that etc/rc.d tests like this are technically
kernel tests (and only incidentally test the relevant rc.d script),
and therefore belong in tests/etc, the same way the kernel tests are
in tests/sys.

--Will.