[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [3550] Kill unionfs support

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 18 March 2012 10:51, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well unionfs seemed to get different oops in each new version. Anyway
> I don't think it should be done like this (having specific code for
> unionfs everywhere).
> I want to improve current chroot mode (like using a cgroup to easily
> kill all processes or set limits) and have a common api to allow other
> modes, like building in kvm for example, or using lvm/btrfs rw
> snapshots (which should be better supported than unionfs).

Then, we could maybe clean this in Chroot.pm:

sub add_local_user {
    my ($chroot_tmp, $run, $config, $luser, $uid) = @_;

    # change the builder user to the local user id
    # FIXME it seems that unionfs does not handle well the change of the
    #       uid of files
    # if (system(qq|sudo chroot $chroot_tmp usermod -u $run->{uid} builder|)) {

Though sadly we lost the actual commit that did that due to the 2007 crash