sharing directories between users on same machine

sharing directories between users on same machine

[Urs Fässler]

Hello,
we try to share the sstate-cache and download directory between multiple 
users on the same machine.

It seems that this don't work as yocto want to overwrite some files in 
those directories, but does not have the rights (since another user 
created them).

Is this not an use case?
- If it should work, can somebody give pointers what might went wrong
   (some missing configuration or so)
- If it can not work, can we do that differently?


Thanks
Urs

Re: sharing directories between users on same machine

[Mike Looijmans]

For the "download" directory, just set the permissions for the group to allow 
writing. I've used this with an NFS share that holds all downloads. The 
machien also runs apache and shares this directory via http.

I share the sstate-cache via http, and there's one machine that runs all 
builds every night, so that the cache is usually up to date. But I think chmod 
g+w on the sstate-cache dir should accomplish the same.

On 11/19/2014 04:20 PM, Urs Fässler wrote:
> Hello,
> we try to share the sstate-cache and download directory between multiple users
> on the same machine.
>
> It seems that this don't work as yocto want to overwrite some files in those
> directories, but does not have the rights (since another user created them).
>
> Is this not an use case?
> - If it should work, can somebody give pointers what might went wrong
>    (some missing configuration or so)
> - If it can not work, can we do that differently?
>
>
> Thanks
> Urs



Met vriendelijke groet / kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert


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