Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add checks for "host user contamination"

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2015-08-24 at 15:19 -0700, Christopher Larson wrote:
> From: Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
> 
> This adds a QA test, as well as a rootfs_ function for use in
> ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND, to warn/error when paths are owned by the same
> user/group as the user running bitbake. This is useful to catch stuff which is
> written outside of pseudo's control, for example.
> 
> The following changes since commit c38acd720b3f6ffbeb544063692eb471dada8593:
> 
>   binconfig-disabled: write an message to stderr to help confused developers (2015-08-19 17:57:58 +0100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://github.com/kergoth/openembedded-core host-user-contaminated
>   https://github.com/kergoth/openembedded-core/tree/host-user-contaminated
> 
> Christopher Larson (3):
>   insane.bbclass: handle tests which need fakeroot
>   insane.bbclass: add host-user-contaminated test
>   image.bbclass: add rootfs_check_host_user_contaminated

On the autobuilder we found:

http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/16318/

which looks like a race against the packaging code and the creation of
package manager files. Not sure why we don't see this in other cases...

Cheers,

Richard