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
