[Dev] Fauno's workflow

[Luke T. Shumaker]

At Sat, 01 Dec 2012 09:22:52 -0300,
Nicolás Reynolds wrote:
> "Luke T. Shumaker" <lukeshu at sbcglobal.net> writes:
> > At Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:29:56 -0300,
> > Nicolás Reynolds wrote:
> >> but srcdest is for downloading sources... why copying if you can have
> >> them all in the same place anyway? :D
> >
> > Because the file ownership of the outside srcdest (you) and the inside
> > srcdest ("nobody") are different.
> 
> changing ownership is cheaper than copying files i think and you don't
> have to trap it to keep them in sync

OK. https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/251

> >> that's the problem with making it mount everytime instead of using
> >> fstab, you can end up with the same dir bind mounted many many times.
> >
> > I think I fixed that bug. Before it trapped the signals so that when
> > there was an error, it went to the umount function. The first thing
> > that function did was reset the traps to the exit function. This was
> > bad because it meant that it might exit early and not umount
> > everything.
> >
> > I think that modifying the outside fstab is too invasive into the
> > user's system.
> 
> we could also check if it's already mounted, just in case

Good idea. https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/262

> >> >  * the legacy code that only runs if systemd-nspawn isn't available
> >> 
> >> this should be deprecated imo
> >
> > I agree, but removing it would involve patching devtools even more
> > than I already do.  I'm trying to keep it so that I can still pull
> > changes from devtools.
> 
> ok... have you asked about the gplv2?

The chroot/systemd-nspawn code is in chroottools.git, which is a fork
of devtools.git.  The GPLv2/3+ issue is that some of the code hopped
from devtools.git to libretools.git.

I've been thinking about it; all of the code that hopped is from
makechrootpkg, so I think it might be a good idea to rework
makechrootpkg into "chroot-functions" or something to keep them
separated for licensing reasons, and so that I can pull devtools
changes to that code.
https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/263

> >> > And some of the "checks" can only be done with a chroot, such as
> >> > turning networking off during the build and package stages.
> >> 
> >> this is true, but what we're discussing (except from the "running any
> >> command instead of a predefined set" part) does still apply.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean. In order to toggle the networking you must
> > exit and re-enter the chroot.
> 
> i mean the changes we're discussing aren't specific to the way the
> chroot is handled and benefit both :O

OK, I'm going to give libremakepkg a flag to not use the chroot.  It
should be fairly stright-forward.
https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/264

> feature request: is it possible to run dbus+avahi-daemon on the chroot,
> or make it available from the host system? now that avahi is a
> dependency of distcc i wanted to try +zeroconf (my build machines are
> changing ips a lot lately...) but it couldn't connect to the host avahi.

I'll look into doing that.
https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/265

Happy hacking,
~ Luke Shumaker