[Live-demo] [OSGeo] #994: chroot build method: files owned by user outside /home/

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#994: chroot build method: files owned by user outside /home/
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 Reporter:  kalxas   |       Owner:  live-demo@…              
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  blocker  |   Milestone:  OSGeoLive6.0Final        
Component:  LiveDVD  |    Keywords:  6.0                      
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Comment(by hamish):

 * i.e. the install scripts have chown'd to a user ID which no longer
 exists at run time

  * projects are forbidden from having the user account own files outside
 of /home
    * it doesn't work with the chroot method. your app is most likely
 broken by it
    * this can break the iso
    * it is not portable if another user account is added
    * new user added suddenly owns system files
    * it's an ugly hack

  * we need to know from gvSIG (is this from your .deb?), geonetwork,
 sahana, and mapproxy the minimal set of files/dirs, if any, that need to
 be writable at run-time.


 thanks,
 Hamish

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/994#comment:2>
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