Debian Bug report logs - #728753
mock: should create mock system group and directories

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mike Miller <mtmiller@ieee.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: mock: should create mock system group and directories

Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:50:13 -0500

Package: mock
Version: 1.1.33-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Installing mock from scratch does not create the mock group, which seems to be
required when calling mock even with sudo.

Running as root without mock in /etc/group yields:

ERROR: 'getgrnam(): name not found: mock'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/mock", line 305, in <module>
    def do_buildsrpm(config_opts, chroot, options, args):
  File "/usr/sbin/mock", line 384, in main
    mockgid = grp.getgrnam('mock').gr_gid
KeyError: 'getgrnam(): name not found: mock'

Running as non-root user yields:

The password you typed is invalid.
Please try again.

until both the group is created and the non-root user is added to the mock
group.

The default directories /var/cache/mock and /var/lib/mock should probably also
be created in the postinst script and made writable by the mock group,
otherwise:

ERROR: Could not create dir /var/lib/mock/epel-6-x86_64/result. Error: [Errno
13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mock/epel-6-x86_64/result'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mockbuild/util.py", line 68, in
mkdirIfAbsent
    os.makedirs(dirName)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mock/epel-6-x86_64/result'
ERROR:
Could not create output directory for built rpms. The directory specified was:
    /var/lib/mock/epel-6-x86_64/result

Try using the --resultdir= option to select another location. Recommended
location is --resultdir=~/mock/.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mock depends on:
ii  python                 2.7.5-5
ii  python-decoratortools  1.8-2
ii  python-rpm             4.11.1-3
ii  usermode               1.109-1
ii  yum                    3.4.3-2
ii  yum-utils              1.1.31-2

mock recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mock suggests:
ii  pigz  2.3-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/mock/site-defaults.cfg changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

Message #12 received at 728753@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Taylor Braun-Jones <taylor@braun-jones.org>

To: 728753@bugs.debian.org

Subject: mock: should create mock system group and directories

Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 22:59:55 -0500

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What's the status of this bug? I was just hit by this bug only to and was
surprised to discover that the bug report is actually quite old. Happy to
test any fixes.

Taylor

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