changing mock directory

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 10:51 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I'm trying to move the mock chroot base from /var/lib/mock to 
> /export/mock, without much success:
> 
> mock  -r fedora-5-i386-core.cfg 
> /export/home/orion/fedora/extras/pytz/devel/pytz-2005i-2.fc5.src.rpm
> Errors cleaning out chroot: mock-helper: error: 
> /export/mock/fedora-5-i386-core: not under allowed directory (/var/lib/mock)
> Starting Prep
> Preparing Root
> could not mount proc error was: mock-helper: error: proc: mount not 
> allowed on /export/mock/fedora-5-i386-core/root/proc
> could not mount /dev/pts error was: mock-helper: error: devpts: mount 
> not allowed on /export/mock/fedora-5-i386-core/root/dev/pts
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/mock", line 672, in ?
>      main()
>    File "/usr/bin/mock", line 664, in main
>      my.close()
>    File "/usr/bin/mock", line 297, in close
>      self._umount_by_file()
>    File "/usr/bin/mock", line 382, in _umount_by_file
>      self._umount(item)
>    File "/usr/bin/mock", line 364, in _umount
>      raise Error, "could not umount %s error was: %s" % (path, output)
> __main__.Error: could not umount proc error was: mock-helper: error: 
> /export/mock/fedora-5-i386-core/root/proc: not under allowed directory 
> (/var/lib/mock)
> make: *** [mockbuild] Error 1
> 
> I just don't have room in /var.  Is /var/lib/mock hardcoded somewhere?

yes. in the suid helper. It's a known 'bug' without a good resolution in
code. We're probably going to remove the option from the config file and
tell people it has to be in /var/lib/mock

you can just bind-mount /export/mock to /var/lib/mock and it will work
just fine.

-sv