On 1 March 2012 00:13, David C. Rankin wrote:

Guys,

 Is it possible to look outside of the chroot while building in an archroot from the PKGBUILD to check for a local copy of a git tree? Logically, what I want to do from inside the archroot is:

(1) check for an existing git source in the ${srcdir}

 (if so, then use it)  (if not, then...)

(2) check for a local copy of the git tree outside chroot

   (if found)

 (3) change to that directory and update and copy to ${srcdir}

   (else)

 (4) clone new copy into ${srcdir}

 Is this even possible? I have made an attempt at implementing this, but I think I'm prevented from looking outside the chroot. Everything works except for (2) above. The check for the local copy always fails forcing a new clone into ${srcdir} instead of simply being able to update the local tree and copy to ${srcdir}.

## GIT repository variables and location _gitlocal="/home/david/tde/tde/main" _gitname="${pkgname#*-}" _gitdir="${_gitlocal}/dependencies/${_gitname}" _giturl="$url" _gitsfx="-git"

_prefix="/opt/tde"

build() {

 cd ${srcdir} <snip>

 ## update or clone from GIT  msg "Checking for existing GIT source: $_gitname"  if [ -d $_gitname ] ; then    msg "Using existing source in: ${srcdir}/${_gitname}"  else    msg "Looking for local GIT tree: $_gitdir"    if [ -d $_gitdir ] ; then      msg "Updating local tree: $_gitdir"      cd $_gitdir && {        git pull        git submodule init        git submodule update --recursive        git submodule foreach --recursive "git checkout master"        git submodule foreach --recursive "git pull"      }      cd ${srcdir} && cp -a "$_gitdir" .      msg "The local files are updated."    else      msg "Connecting to GIT server...."      msg "Cloning new source from: $url"      git clone --depth 1 $_giturl    fi    msg "GIT checkout done or server timeout"  fi

 msg "Starting configure..." #   ./configure \

 msg "Building - ${pkgname}..."

#   make

}

 The output from makechrootpkg is always the same even though the local copy of the git tree is present:

==> Making package: tde-libart-lgpl 1.3.2.4-1 (Wed Feb 29 23:55:20 UTC 2012) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... ==> Extracting Sources... ==> Starting build()... ==> Checking for existing GIT source: libart-lgpl ==> Looking for local GIT tree: /home/david/tde/tde/main/dependencies/libart-lgpl ==> Connecting to GIT server.... ==> Cloning new source from: http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/libart-lgpl Cloning into 'libart-lgpl'... ==> GIT checkout done or server timeout ==> Starting configure... ==> Building - tde-libart-lgpl... ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting package()... ==> Packaging - tde-libart-lgpl-1.3.2.4

 Possible? Or would the solution be to set the local copy of the git tree up inside a apache (or whatever it takes) and pretend to run a local copy? Even then, there would be no way to check for its existence from inside the chroot?

You could mount --bind the location of your local git repositories to a point inside your chroot, that's probably the quickest and simplest way of doing it, although it offers no protection of your git repositories from being wiped out from within the chroot. Regards, Damien