[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#441052: Bug#441052: pbuilder: make $HOME non-writable, like in sbuild
Junichi Uekawa
dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Thu Sep 6 13:44:47 UTC 2007
> Package: pbuilder
> Version: 0.171
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I recently had some build failures on autobuilders due to $HOME not
> being writable (or existent) there. This is fine, because package
> builds shouldn't be writing in home directories. It would be nice if
> pbuilder would also refuse to do this, so it can be used (even better)
> to check if autobuilding will work.
Hmm.. The original behavior of pbuilder was to set $HOME to random
place, but it's changed because that's a POSIX requirement.
Making $HOME point to some read-only place might be better.
pbuilder (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
* set HOME to /tmp/buildd (closes: #170762)
thanks: Clint Adams <schizo at debian.org>
-- Junichi Uekawa <dancer at debian.org> Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:21:18 +0900
regards,
junichi
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