Re: changing mock directory

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

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, it is. Use a bind mount instead.

e.g. in /etc/fstab

/export/mock /var/lib/mock auto bind 0 0

Paul.