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

[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?

Jan

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