[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#441052: Bug#441052: pbuilder: make $HOME non-writable, like in sbuild

[Junichi Uekawa]

> Package: pbuilder
> Version: 0.171
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I recently had some build failures on autobuilders due to $HOME not
> being writable (or existent) there.  This is fine, because package
> builds shouldn't be writing in home directories.  It would be nice if
> pbuilder would also refuse to do this, so it can be used (even better)
> to check if autobuilding will work.

Hmm.. The original behavior of pbuilder was to set $HOME to random
place, but it's changed because that's a POSIX requirement.

Making $HOME point to some read-only place might be better.


pbuilder (0.50) unstable; urgency=low

  * set HOME to /tmp/buildd (closes: #170762)
  thanks: Clint Adams <schizo at debian.org>

 -- Junichi Uekawa <dancer at debian.org>  Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:21:18 +0900


regards,
	junichi
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