-=| Ansgar Burchardt, Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:39:47PM +0100 |=- > Damyan Ivanov <d...@debian.org> writes: > > (repetitive mumbling) > > > > Why not pathcing sbuild so it provides a useful home directory > > (possibly wiped after build)? Seemed like a lot of effort some time > > ago, but having to work around it forever doesn't seem trivial either. > > For me it is a bug when a build relies on the contents of $HOME as it > makes builds harder to reproduce. It's better to fix these problems > when we see them than patching sbuild.
In my mind, sbuild-provided, empty $HOME/ would improve reproducibility. Similarly to the idea that you get an empty chroot, without the packages installed on the regular system. Of course, the fact that I am not really suffering from these problems (my involvment in fixing them is practicaly zero) makes my point just a tiny bit more relevant than a random whining, which you may as well ignore.
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