commit: e5a53e42022668563965ede6409a3de233af332c
Author: Mike Frysinger <vapier <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Tue Oct 6 20:32:03 2015 +0000
Commit: Brian Dolbec <dolsen <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Sat Mar 11 22:01:27 2017 +0000
URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/catalyst.git/commit/?id=e5a53e42
catalyst: create namespaces for building
This helps isolate the catalyst builds from the rest of the system
and allows us to build as non-root user in more cases.
We don't support pid or user namespaces yet.
catalyst/main.py | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/catalyst/main.py b/catalyst/main.py
index 51d2b04..b8ae662 100644
--- a/catalyst/main.py
+++ b/catalyst/main.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import os
import sys
from snakeoil import process
+from snakeoil.process import namespaces
from DeComp.definitions import (COMPRESS_DEFINITIONS, DECOMPRESS_DEFINITIONS,
CONTENTS_DEFINITIONS)
@@ -421,6 +422,14 @@ def _main(parser, opts):
# catalyst cannot be run as a normal user due to chroots,
mounts, etc
log.critical('This script requires root privileges to operate')
+ # Start off by creating unique namespaces to run in. Would be nice to
+ # use pid & user namespaces, but snakeoil's namespace module has signal
+ # transfer issues (CTRL+C doesn't propagate), and user namespaces need
+ # more work due to Gentoo build process (uses sudo/root/portage).
+ namespaces.simple_unshare(
+ mount=True, uts=True, ipc=True, pid=False, net=False,
user=False,
+ hostname='catalyst')
+
# everything is setup, so the build is a go
try:
success = build_target(addlargs)
