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

[Riku Voipio]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:01:31PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 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).

This buildd was set up before armel was taken as part of debian buildd
network, and I was new at the nuances of setting up buildds.. Your versions
of sbuild/schroot have been working fine (this is the first issue so
far) so I haven't bothered reconfiguring them. For later buildd's managed
under the debian.org system administration I used older versions just in case.

> > 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?

Well it would quite clearly be a bug if a tool failed to work if it
can't read a file from $HOME during build.. notice that /nonexistent
passwd entry is created from the buildd-make-chroot script from buildd
package. So this is a very old practice, and has rarely caused problems.
I think qmake used to be problematic in this matter.

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