Le 9/04/21 à 11:09, Simon McVittie a écrit :
On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 at 10:37:59 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
The dep8 specification says:
Tests can expect that the ``$HOME`` environment variable to be set
to a directory that exists and is writeable by the user running the test.
But when using schroot (not tried anythong else), $HOME is set to the
HOME of the user running the autopkgtest and does not exists in the
schroot. So either the spec is wrong or the implementation.
What schroot configuration are you using? Relevant information:
* your user's home directory
* the file in /etc/schroot/chroot.d defining the chroot you're using
* /etc/schroot/${profile}/fstab, where ${profile} is taken from the
chroot's configuration
If you are using profile=default (which is the default if left unspecified),
/etc/schroot/default/fstab usually bind-mounts the real /home.
If you are using profile=sbuild, /etc/schroot/sbuild/fstab usually does
not, making it unsuitable for autopkgtest-virt-schroot.
Using a chroot that contains a pre-created home directory for the user
running autopkgtest is also an option, but this is not currently something
that can be set up automatically.
I'm indeed using the "sbuild" profile, but I don't think that anybody
would want to have their real home bind mounted in the chroot and mixed
with the one from the tests
Shouldn't HOME be pointing a temporary directory like for AUTOPKGTEST_TMP ?
I would recommend using autopkgtest-virt-lxc or autopkgtest-virt-qemu:
those are considerably better-tested in practice than -schroot.
I should maybe look at that, but my schroot setup is usually enough for me
