[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#479944: Bug#479944: perl: FTBFS: Failed test at ../lib/Module/Build/t/tilde.t line 49.

[Roger Leigh]

Riku Voipio <riku.voipio at iki.fi> writes:

> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 08:13:20PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
>> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:38:41PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>> > It seems that this is caused by the fact that schroot logs in the user
>
>> > with $HOME set to the host's pwent, not the guest. My config is:
>> > host:
>> >   user's home: /home/user
>> > chroot:
>> >   user's home in /etc/passwd: /nonexistent (which doesn't exist)
>
> This appears to be the case here as well.
>
>> 5.0.10-9 built OK on arcadelt. Cc'ing the armel buildd maintainers; I
>> suppose the setup on ALL6500 should be changed.
>
> ALL6500 uses schroot while other buildd's use sudo.

Wow, I didn't realise anyone was using it in a real buildd environment
yet!  Does this mean you're using buildd-tools sbuild as well?  If so,
have you come across any issues with it?  (I have no knowledge of
anyone else using it in this way, so I am really interested to know of
any testing as a buildd).

>  As a workaround I can
> change buildd's $HOME to match inside schroot to the one outside
> (/home/buildd) and reschedule perl.
>
> I believe /nonexistent is used to catch packages trying to write to
> $HOME during builds.

Does this not lead to problems for packages which attempt to read
files from $HOME during a build?  Are there any cases where this is a
problem?


Regards,
Roger

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