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+# Copyright 2013-2019 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+import pytest
+
+import spack.config
+import spack.error
+
+from spack.main import SpackCommand
+
+share = SpackCommand('share')
+install = SpackCommand('install')
+
+
+@pytest.fixture()
+def local_tmpdir():
+    print("We be making them tmpdirs")
+
+
+def test_activate():
+    share('activate')
+    assert spack.config.get('config:shared') is True
+
+
+def test_deactivate():
+    # Ensures that this test can be run individually
+    # Activates shared mode so shared mode can be deactivated
+    if not spack.config.get('config:shared'):
+        share('activate')
+    share('deactivate')
+    assert spack.config.get('config:shared') is False