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

Packages relying on HOME when building

2009-10-25 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! 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). Some of our buildds try to detect by setting HOME to something like /non-exis