[arch-haskell] Using makeahpkg

[Magnus Therning]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 08:06:39PM +0200, Alessandro Pezzoni wrote:
> From what I see in the 'makechrootpkg' script, when running 'makeahpkg'
> 'makepkg' gets called with:
> 
> # sudo -u nobody makepkg -s --noconfirm -L
> 
> If I try to do that from within the chroot I get the following error,
> when it comes to install the missing dependencies:
> 
> sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root?
> 
> A minimal test case confirms that this is a 'sudo' issue:
> 
> # sudo -u nobody sudo
> sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root?
> 
> Looking for that error message on the internet I get a FAQ about 'sudo'
> where they say that:
> "Sudo must be setuid root to do its work. Either /usr/local/bin/sudo is
> not owned by uid 0 or the setuid bit is not set."
> But 'ls -l /usr/bin/sudo' in the chroot gives me the expected result:
> 
> ---s--x--x 1 root root 125834 May 31 11:37 /usr/bin/sudo
> 
> At the moment I don't have a clue about what could be causing this
> problem, though.

This is a long shot, but how is the partition where your chroot lives
mounted?  There is an option to disallow setuid root on an entire
device by specifying 'nosuid' in /etc/fstab.

/M

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