Re: Building rpms in mock

Zenon Panoussis writes:

>
>>>> The main problem I'm facing is that neither authlib nor courier
>>>> can be built in mock because they expect the user:group to exist.
>
>>> This should be dealt with now. The new build will, if set up with a static  
>>> uid:gid, will create it before building courier-authlib, and courier-authlib- 
>>> config's scriptlet will recreate it when it gets installed.
>
>> I actually tried just now to use mock, and found a mock-related issue...
>
> If you run `pwd` in a mock shell, you get '/buildroot/build/BUILD'.
> Thus, rpmbuild has no access to /etc and cannot create users and
> groups. I suspect that the only way to get around this is to not
> require that the user:group actually exist, nor try to create them
> in the build process, but to just go ahead and build with whatever
> has been --define'ed, or with the default if nothing has been
> --define'ed.

mock shell gives me a root shell:

[mrsam@monster ~]$ mock shell
INFO: mock.py version 5.3 starting (python version = 3.12.1, NVR =  
mock-5.3-1.fc39), args: /usr/libexec/mock/mock shell
Start(bootstrap): init plugins
INFO: selinux enabled
Finish(bootstrap): init plugins
Start: init plugins
INFO: selinux enabled
Finish: init plugins
INFO: Signal handler active
Start: run
Start(bootstrap): chroot init
INFO: calling preinit hooks
INFO: enabled root cache
INFO: enabled package manager cache
Start(bootstrap): cleaning package manager metadata
Finish(bootstrap): cleaning package manager metadata
INFO: Package manager dnf detected and used (fallback)
Finish(bootstrap): chroot init
Start: chroot init
INFO: calling preinit hooks
INFO: enabled root cache
INFO: enabled package manager cache
Start: cleaning package manager metadata
Finish: cleaning package manager metadata
INFO: enabled HW Info plugin
INFO: Package manager dnf detected and used (direct choice)
Finish: chroot init
Start: shell
<mock-chroot> sh-5.2# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
<mock-chroot> sh-5.2# echo foo >/etc/bar
<mock-chroot> sh-5.2#

My userid is a member of the "mock" group, perhaps that's the missing link.

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