Tinderbox chroot change mount to readonly on demand

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 6/9/11 5:02 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 8 June 2011 20:36, Chris Rees <crees at marcuscom.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Done a couple of little changes to the mounting logic [1], as well as
>> modify requestMount to auto-add the -u flag to already mounted
>> filesystems, this will allow us to toggle the readonly flag.
>>
>> It looks rather tricky to be playing with something as major as where
>> the build is called from, but I think I'm doing it properly...
>>
>> Does anyone see any major errors in what I've done so far? Progress is
>> slow because I'm at work this week, and very busy writing pupil
>> reports as well :/
>>
>> Chris
>>
> 
> OK, so I trashed the mounting changes, the complexity and problems with
> mounting ${build}/tmp onto ${buildmountpoint}/tmp when ${build} is mounted
> onto ${buildmountpoint} were just becoming depressing.
> 
> Then I thought... why not just su to nobody for the building phases?

Yes, it should be fine as ports should be buildable by non-root users.

> 
> Patch at [1], and net/rsync was tinderboxed with the patch and passed [2],
> and mail/mailman was tinderboxed with the patch and failed [3] (as it
> now should).
> 
> Would anyone care to test this patch with their ports? Any
> well-behaved ports should be fine.

Out of curiosity, does mailman fail on pointyhat due to its abuse of the
file system?

Joe

> 
> If it works well, I'll look at coding it into the port_failure_reasons.
> 
> Chris
> 
> [1] http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/tinderbox-unprivileged.patch
> [2] http://www.bayofrum.net/tb/index.php?action=display_markup_log&build=8.2-local&id=640
> [3] http://www.bayofrum.net/tb/index.php?action=display_markup_log&build=8.2-local&id=871
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