Re: [PATCH] buildchroot: build debian packages as "builder" not "root"

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Thu, 8 Nov 2018 14:32:42 +0100
schrieb Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>:

> On 26.10.18 12:49, [ext] Henning Schild wrote:
> > We used to build packages as "root" and now do that as a regular
> > user. Not building as "root" allows us to find mistakes in
> > debian/rules where privileged operations are used while they should
> > not (a sudo was found in a rules-file). Further some build steps
> > might actually expect to not run as root (seen in openssl test
> > suite).
> > 
> > Not building as root should increase overall quality and brings us
> > closer to how debian packages are build by others.  
> 
> I strongly suspect this is the cause for more and more rebuild errors
> of this kind:
> 
> | make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/builder/u-boot/u-boot-v2018.09'
> |    dh_clean -O--parallel
> |  dpkg-source -I -b u-boot-v2018.09
> | dpkg-source: warning: no source format specified in
> debian/source/format, see dpkg-source(1) | dpkg-source: warning:
> source directory 'u-boot-v2018.09' is not
> <sourcepackage>-<upstreamversion> 'u-boot-2018.09' | dpkg-source:
> info: using source format '1.0' | dpkg-source: info: building u-boot
> in u-boot_2018.09.tar.gz | dpkg-source: error: cannot write
> u-boot_2018.09.dsc: Permission denied | dpkg-source: info: building
> u-boot in u-boot_2018.09.dsc | dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source
> -I -b u-boot-v2018.09 gave error exit status 13 | WARNING: exit code
> 13 from a shell command. | ERROR: Function failed: do_build (log file
> is located
> at /work/build/tmp/work/long-life-ebsy-armhf/u-boot-2018.09-r0/temp/log.do_build.15761)
> 
> Are we missing some cleandirs in dpkg[-base].class?

Does the file exist and can not be written by builder, or does it not
exist and the dir must not receive new files. I am guessing the former
but have not clue why.
Maybe you can tell be how to reproduce this.

Henning

> Jan
>