Bug 164441

Summary:	mock config allows changing basedir, but it's hardcoded
Product:	[Retired] Fedora Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Component:	mock	Assignee:	Clark Williams <williams>
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Description Jeremy Katz 2005-07-27 21:44:36 UTC

basedir is hardcoded into mock-helper so that people can't mount /proc
whereever.  But you can change basedir in the config file.

We should either make it so changing it in the config file then lets things work
or remove the option

Comment 1 Andrew Ziem 2006-04-04 02:36:28 UTC

I worked around the problem using a symlink, but an interim solution would be to
produce a warning to minimize confusion.

Comment 2 Clark Williams 2006-08-10 21:16:33 UTC

I'll add a snippet of code to check that configs['basedir'] is still
/var/lib/mock in the 0.6 code base. We've looked at this repeatedly and there's
just no safe way to change mock-helper. So for now bind-mounts is still the only
safe way to change where /var/lib/mock points. 

Shouldn't be an issue for the 0.7 codebase and up, since we removed mock-helper
and the setuid launcher just runs python on /usr/bin/mock.py