Re: Packages relying on HOME when building

2009-10-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le lundi 26 octobre 2009 à 01:17 +0100, Norbert Preining a écrit : >> I would suggest on the contrary that HOME *will* be set by all scripts >> to a newly created empty directory. > > I’d rather suggest that it will be set to a non-existent directory. If > possible

Re: Packages relying on HOME when building

2009-10-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Oct 26 2009, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2009-10-26, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> >> --=-7ZxixtYBhhZyQIGhRFTI >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> >> Le lundi 26 octobre 2009 =C3=A0 01:17 +0100, Norbert Preining a =C3=A9crit = >>:=20 >>

Re: Packages relying on HOME when building

2009-10-26 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-10-26, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > --=-7ZxixtYBhhZyQIGhRFTI > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Le lundi 26 octobre 2009 =C3=A0 01:17 +0100, Norbert Preining a =C3=A9crit = >:=20 >> I would suggest on the contrary that HOME *will* b

Re: Packages relying on HOME when building

2009-10-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 26 octobre 2009 à 01:17 +0100, Norbert Preining a écrit : > I would suggest on the contrary that HOME *will* be set by all scripts > to a newly created empty directory. I’d rather suggest that it will be set to a non-existent directory. If possible, one that cannot be created with the pe

Re: Packages relying on HOME when building

2009-10-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Norbert Preining writes: > I would suggest on the contrary that HOME *will* be set by all scripts > to a newly created empty directory. Why not do that in debian/rules for the few packages that need it? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) -- To UNS

Re: Packages relying on HOME when building

2009-10-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Oct 25 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi, > > On So, 25 Okt 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: >> There's some packages which rely on HOME existing and often being >> writtable. This is broken behaviour as the package does not have any >> businesss verifying if it exists or writting outside of it

Re: Packages relying on HOME when building

2009-10-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 01:17:12AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi, > > On So, 25 Okt 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: > > There's some packages which rely on HOME existing and often being > > writtable. This is broken behaviour as the package does not have any > > businesss verifying if it exists o

Re: Packages relying on HOME when building

2009-10-25 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi, On So, 25 Okt 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: > There's some packages which rely on HOME existing and often being > writtable. This is broken behaviour as the package does not have any > businesss verifying if it exists or writting outside of its build dir > (or /tmp). I disagree. Some upstream bu