Silencing Mock

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Dec 28 03:04:20 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 11:46 +0900, 夜神 岩男 wrote:
> I've never really payed attention (or cared) until now, but Mock is 
> annoying me with copious lines of:
> 
> ...
> DEBUG: warning: group iwao does not exist - using root
> DEBUG: warning: user iwao does not exist - using root
> ...
> 
> during builds. I asked the search gods about this one, and all I find 
> are tons of log files scattered around the net with the same messages in 
> them -- but nobody asking if this is an error or not.
> 
> The builds work fine, its just annoying -- but on systems where this 
> error pops up the command "mock --scrub=all" can't be run, and I feel 
> the two are probably related.
> 
> Any ideas? I've got to be missing something small here.
----
I've always assumed that this occurs because the Makefiles/scripts in
the tarballs have hardcoded user names and that it's generally harmless
but always a good reminder of why you don't want to build as root.

Craig


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