Bug#986665: $HOME not writable when using schroot

2025-02-12 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 at 17:31:40 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > * Decide that it is the job of a virt server to provide $HOME, >and that for the schroot virt server it is the job of whatever >creates the chroot. Patch sbuild-createchroot's sbuild profile >to provide a dummy, writeable, em

Bug#986665: $HOME not writable when using schroot

2025-02-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Bug#986665: $HOME not writable when using schroot"): ... > * Decide that virt servers are allowed to not provide $HOME. >Have the autopkgtest virt core check to see if some home directory >exists, and "polyfill" it by using so

Bug#986665: $HOME not writable when using schroot

2025-02-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Simon McVittie writes ("Re: Bug#986665: $HOME not writable when using schroot"): > It turns out that Ian Jackson is an example of someone who specifically > *does* want their real $HOME to be mounted in the chroot, and rejects > the non-schroot backends for exactly this reason.

Bug#986665: $HOME not writable when using schroot

2025-02-12 Thread Simon McVittie
Control: tags -1 - pending On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 at 16:16:46 +, Simon McVittie merged: > Drop the schroot virt server (autopkgtest-virt-schroot) This was subsequently reverted. On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 at 12:13:50 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 at 13:24:54 +0200, Laurent Bigonvi

Bug#986665: $HOME not writable when using schroot

2021-04-11 Thread Simon McVittie
Control: severity -1 normal Control: retitle -1 autopkgtest-virt-schroot: cannot guarantee that $HOME is writable Control: found -1 2.0.0 I'm sure autopkgtest could do better to try to arrange things "normally", and I'd be happy to review an implementation if you have one in mind, but I don't thi

Bug#986665: $HOME not writable when using schroot

2021-04-09 Thread Laurent Bigonville
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

Bug#986665: $HOME not writable when using schroot

2021-04-09 Thread Simon McVittie
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),

Bug#986665: $HOME not writable when using schroot

2021-04-09 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Package: autopkgtest Version: 5.16 Severity: serious Hello, 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