Should be possible to run as non root

Bug #228495 reported by Steve Kowalik
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Moblin Image Creator
Confirmed
Wishlist
Praj

Bug Description

Moblin Image Creator currently requires root access to the machine it runs on to perform any operation. Since the basis of creating an image is creating a chroot, it should be possible to work around this by utilizing a system such as fakechroot and not requiring root access.

Tags: ume
Revision history for this message
David Mandala (davidm) wrote :

This is an issue because full UME builds with tar ball are quite large (in excess of 2 Gig) and because Moblin Image Creator requires root we can not create private builds in the data center (the IS department will not grant root access to anyone in the datacenter). Thus we have to create private builds on a machine local to a developer and then move the entire image up to the data center. Building in this fashion causes long delays (up to and including a day).

If M-I-C used fake root or one of the other standard methods of not really having to use real root access it would be possible to do a full private build much faster as it would avoid both the download time and the upload time, for a Beta from scratch this can amount to 6-10 hours.

Praj (prajwal-linux)
Changed in moblin-image-creator:
assignee: nobody → prajwal-linux
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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