On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:24:09 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 07:40:19AM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > > I am still not convinced that this is a problem with the package or > > a problem that should be solved per package.
Hm. I think writing to (an existing) $HOME is a bit weird at build time. > > Home directories are a fundamental UNIX thing, similar to mktemp call. Agreed, the question is what $HOME is set to, and "who" sets it. > > I agree that a fix in the package is simple and quick, but I believe > > this is better fixed globally, e.g. at sbuild level. > Well the buildd do not have home for the building user, only the above > mounts shown. One further reason apart the safety reasons, to have > this way is to avoid that building user may use already present > configuration influenting the build or testing (as an example). The > solution you propose to have the buildd's set first a temporary home > directory may work indeed, but has to be implemented there. Having $HOME set during build by some of the involved tools would indeed be more practical; be it sbuild or debhelper or even dpkg ... (Until then I still support the idea of fixing our packages :)) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Anouar Brahem: Leila au pays du carrousel
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