[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#595647: schroot: cannot create session with the same name as the chroot

[Sascha Silbe]

Package: schroot
Version: 1.4.11-1
Severity: normal


schroot(1) says I can use the same name for the session as the name of the chroot (like it worked for lenny):

>   Session chroots
>       All sessions created with --begin-session are placed within the 'session:' namespace.  A session named with --session-name may have any name, even  the  same
>       name  as the chroot it was created from, providing that it is unique within this namespace.  This was not permitted in previous versions of schroot which did
>       not have namespaces.

Unfortunately it doesn't work:

sascha.silbe at twin:~$ schroot -c sugar-jhbuild -n sugar-jhbuild -b
E: sugar-jhbuild: Invalid session name
sascha.silbe at twin:~$ schroot -c chroot:sugar-jhbuild -n sugar-jhbuild -b
E: sugar-jhbuild: Invalid session name

I haven't tried prefixing the session name with "session:" because schroot(1) tells me not to:

>       -n, --session-name=session-name
>              Name a session.  The specified session-name replaces the default session name containing an automatically-generated session ID.  The session name must
>              not contain a namespace qualifier, since sessions are always created within the 'session:' namespace.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages schroot depends on:
ii  libboost-filesystem1.42.0     1.42.0-4   filesystem operations (portable pa
ii  libboost-program-options1.42. 1.42.0-4   program options library for C++
ii  libboost-regex1.42.0          1.42.0-4   regular expression library for C++
ii  libboost-system1.42.0         1.42.0-4   Operating system (e.g. diagnostics
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-3   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.4-12 GCC support library
ii  liblockdev1                   1.0.3-1.4  Run-time shared library for lockin
ii  libpam0g                      1.1.1-4    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.4-12   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libuuid1                      2.17.2-3.1 Universally Unique ID library
ii  schroot-common                1.4.11-1   common files for schroot

schroot recommends no packages.

Versions of packages schroot suggests:
pn  aufs-modules | unionfs-m <none>          (no description available)
ii  btrfs-tools              0.19+20100601-3 Checksumming Copy on Write Filesys
pn  debootstrap              <none>          (no description available)
ii  lvm2                     2.02.66-3       The Linux Logical Volume Manager
ii  unzip                    6.0-4           De-archiver for .zip files

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/schroot/schroot.conf changed:
[sugar-jhbuild]
description=Debian Squeeze for sugar-jhbuild
type=block-device
device=/dev/twin_vg/chroot-sugar-jhbuild
mount-options=-o noatime,user_xattr,acl,data=journal
users=sascha.silbe
root-users=sascha.silbe
script-config=legacy/config
[squeeze-i386-build]
description=Debian Squeeze for building i386 packages
type=block-device
device=/dev/twin_vg/chroot-squeeze-i386-build
mount-options=-o noatime,user_xattr,acl,data=writeback
users=sascha.silbe
root-users=sascha.silbe
script-config=legacy/config
[squeeze-amd64-build]
description=Debian Squeeze for building amd64 packages
type=block-device
device=/dev/twin_vg/chroot-squeeze-amd64-build
mount-options=-o noatime,user_xattr,acl,data=writeback
users=sascha.silbe
root-users=sascha.silbe
script-config=legacy/config


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