Re: Fixing constant preference prompts during tests

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Tacitus Aedifex <aedifex@sdf.org> writes:

> I keep getting prompted for my algorithm preferences while running all
> of the git test suite:
>
> Set preference list to:
>     Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, 3DES
>     Digest: SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, SHA224, SHA1
>     Compression: Uncompressed
>     Features: MDC, Keyserver no-modify
>
> What is the best way to prevent this from happening? I want to run the
> entire test suite unattended and have it complete on its own.

Nobody raised this so far as far as I recall; thanks for the first
one to do so, as it is a sign that you are doing something unusual
(e.g. have newer or different version of GPG than most other people)
and others will hit by the same symptom later when whatever thing
you are using as a minority right now becomes more prevalent.

In other words, we need to have a bit more detail of your
environment.  I made a blind guess that the above may be coming from
GnuPG, and the test framework (t/test-lib.sh, t/lib-gpg.sh, etc.)
tries to run our tests in a stable environment that is not affected
by real $HOME etc. owned by the user who happens to be running the
tests, but it could be that your copy of GnuPG may require a bit
more seeding than we do in our test framework to squelch that
preference prompt.

It may not be GnuPG and something else, but I think you got the
general idea.