[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#566314: Bug#566314: buildd: Upgrade changed gid, breaks buildds.

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:37:38AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:31:29PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > Package: buildd
> > Version: 0.59.1~rc1~buildd20100121.0
> > Severity: grave
> > 
> > After the recent upgrade of the buildds, sbuild's gid
> > got changed from 1000 to 106 or something simular.
> > 
> > However, all the chroots still use gid 1000, so nothing
> > can be build anymore.
> 
> The postinst of sbuild does switch the sbuild group from
> a user group to a system group.  This was done in 0.59.3
> in May 2009.
> 
> We take care to chown all files on the host owned by
> group sbuild.  Inside /var/lib/sbuild in the chroot,
> this is taken care of at runtime by
> Sbuild::ChrootSetup::basesetup which is called when
> setting up a chroot in Sbuild::Chroot::_setup_options.
> 
> On non-buildd hosts, such as all sbuild users using
> testing or unstable, this group migration went
> smoothly with no reported breakage.
> 
> Could you let me know exactly which files and/or
> directories are retaining the old group, and are
> causing breakage as a consequence?

Atleast everything in /build and /var/lib/sbuild


Kurt