Want to help QA the Test1 release?

[Jane Dogalt]

Replying to myself...


--- Jane Dogalt <jdogalt at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote
> 
> > We could really use it (:  I need to have a tree handed off by
> > tomorrow in 
> > order to meet the Tuesday release deadline.
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/7/Test1TreeTesting
> > 
> > Start there and let us know! 
> 
> Ok, asside from the 'building iso sets' as '(todo)', which will no
> doubt be done soon, I would like to pose this build question (I'll
> subscribe to buildsys soon, I promise).
> 
> What part of the iso 'spin' process requires root, and why?  I've
> skimmed enough mock docs to see that mock even has a root setuid
> hook. 
> >From a 'philosophical' point of view, it seems like root really
> ought
> not be needed by a program which inputs the development repo over the
> net, and outputs iso images.
> 

Ok, google://"mock setuid" yields a fair answer...

http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-buildsys-list@redhat.com/msg00563.html

I guess I should go read the rest of that thread to figure out where
the work remains to get a pungi/mock build that doesn't require any
root priveleges...


> I am very serious about working to bring about a non-root
> 'spin'(/strain in my vernacular) process.  qemu is what I'm working
> with now to accomplish this, and the performance is definitely
> adequate
> for the hobbyist distro builder.  But of course qemu ought not be
> necessary to accomplish this, unless I'm missing something.
> 
> I'd appreciate any commentary or pointers to relevent historical
> threads.
>  
> -dmc/jdog
> 
>  
> 
> 
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>
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