Bug#441052: Detecting stray writes in cowbuilder

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:21:14 +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:

> All this is pbuilder's bug https://bugs.debian.org/441052 (cc'ed)
> Don't be scared about the dates, pbuilder is now alive again.
> 
> The change that setted HOME to a writable directory is since 2002, I
> wonder if I should revert that.
> 
> If I'm going down that rout I'll add a variable in pbuilderrc that
> defaults to /nonexistent.

Yes please.

I've seen way too many
FTFBS-on-buildd-with-sbuild-but-built-in-my-cowbuilder bugs because of
$HOME over the last years, and I've always wanted something like
HOME=/nonexistent in pbuilder/cowbuilder as well. 


Cheers,
gregor

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