On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Mike McLean wrote:
> On 03/31/2010 05:12 AM, Paul Howarth wrote: >> The /var/lib/mock/dist-foo-build-18-13 directory may be a hangover from >> when things were broken previously. It shouldn't be owned by user "torrent". >> >> I'd do an "ls -l /var/lib/mock" and move any directories owned by user >> "torrent" somewhere else, then try again. If everything then works OK, >> delete the moved directories (mock should re-create these directories as >> needed). > > For a number of chroot operations (e.g. building), mock uses an > unprivileged user it creates in the chroot. By default, the uid/gid for > this unprivileged user is chosen based on the user running mock (it > looks at env data from sudo/consolehelper to determine the real user). > > So, the builddir in the chroot is going to be owned by that unprivileged > user. If you run mock as a /different/ user later and attempt to reuse > the same buildroot, then you will get the errors like the ones you are > seeing. > > Short answer: different mock users cannot share chroots. > > Easy fix: run mock clean to clear the old junk out of the buildroot. or mock --uniqueext=$USER -sv -- buildsys mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/buildsys
