creating file in koji allowed?

[Hans Ulrich Niedermann]

On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:29:21 +0100
Thomas Spura <spurath at students.uni-mainz.de> wrote:

> Is it allowed to create a file ~/.mpd.conf, when building in koji and
> deleting afterwards?
> 
> I need to write down a password into that file, for running a
> testsuite. If that file does not exist, I can't run mpich2 tests.

How does the technique of just setting HOME like

   mkdir mytemphome
   cd mytemphome
   echo "STUFF" > .mpd.conf
   export HOME=$PWD

fail to work for this case? The mpich2 source code suggests this should
work.

In any case, I would consider it very bad practise for package builds
or package tests to write into $HOME/.any.file.

-- 
Hans Ulrich Niedermann