sudo-less build

sudo-less build

[Jan Kiszka]

Hi all,

Christian pointed out that OE achieves the sudo-less build via libpseudo:

https://www.yoctoproject.org/tools-resources/projects/pseudo
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/pseudo/

That seems to be packaged for Debian as well, and its usage sound rather
straightforward. Would it be hard to exploit that for Isar?

Jan

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Re: sudo-less build

[Baurzhan Ismagulov]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 03:46:27PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Christian pointed out that OE achieves the sudo-less build via libpseudo:
> 
> https://www.yoctoproject.org/tools-resources/projects/pseudo
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/pseudo/
> 
> That seems to be packaged for Debian as well, and its usage sound rather
> straightforward. Would it be hard to exploit that for Isar?

Yes, we are aware of that. We could try it.

That said, we quickly tried
https://wiki.debian.org/Multistrap/Environment#fakeroot two years ago, and it
failed even with Secure Apt disabled.

Not sure why Secure Apt requires root, but fakeroot requires that e.g. device
nodes are created and consumed (e.g., for image generation) from within the
same fakeroot process; we'll have to think what to do with "standalone
creators" like buildchroot, which are used from other recipes with sudo (cp,
install, chroot, etc.).

I've created https://github.com/ilbers/isar/issues/11.

With kind regards,
Baurzhan.