Bug#441052: pbuilder: make $HOME non-writable, like in sbuild

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:44:51PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > 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.

I suppose sbuild / buildds don't care about that...

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

Please make it possible to at least override $HOME in pbuilderrc.
I'd very much like to find bugs like #577011 earlier instead of
seeing failures on every autobuilder.

As it is, /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-buildpackage unconditionally
sets $HOME AFAICS.

Many thanks for your work,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org