On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 09:43:39PM +0200, David Given wrote: > I've just had a FTBFS bug on a new upload caused by a debian/rules bug > where I was running upstream's make install twice, once without setting > PREFIX. This was causing the package to be installed to $HOME as will as > to ./debian/tmp. > > This worked while doing the packaging, because it was silently getting > installed in my home directory; and it worked in cowbuilder, because it > was silently getting installed in the build's home directory and then > discarded; but it was failing on the build servers because the build > server's $HOME is read-only. > > Is there a way to make cowbuilder detect writes to places that shouldn't > be written to so this doesn't happen again in the future?
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. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: http://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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