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

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

On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 08:50 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 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...

Also http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/16310/ which looks
like the same issue (racing dpkg rather than opkg).

Cheers,

Richard