ci: Create user's home directory in the container

Some applications expect the user's home directory to be
present on the system and require workarounds when that's not
the case. Creating the home directory along with everything
else is easy enough for us, so let's just do that.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>

diff --git a/ci/Makefile b/ci/Makefile
index fd15fbc32e107d07dd23442521bc2c29d5c70df5..4241162a8d6d575d3a53a62013f05febd9ea2b43 100644 (file)
--- a/ci/Makefile
+++ b/ci/Makefile
@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ CI_REUSE = 0
 CI_UID = $(shell id -u)
 CI_GID = $(shell id -g)
 
+# We also need the user's login and home directory to prepare the
+# environment the way some programs expect it
+CI_USER_LOGIN = $(shell echo "$$USER")
+CI_USER_HOME = $(shell echo "$$HOME")
+
 CI_ENGINE = auto
 # Container engine we are going to use, can be overridden per make
 # invocation, if it is not we try podman and then default to docker.
@@ -87,6 +92,10 @@ CI_PWDB_MOUNTS = \
        --volume $(CI_SCRATCHDIR)/passwd:/etc/passwd:ro,z \
        $(NULL)
 
+CI_HOME_MOUNTS = \
+       --volume $(CI_SCRATCHDIR)/home:$(CI_USER_HOME):z \
+       $(NULL)
+
 # Docker containers can have very large ulimits
 # for nofiles - as much as 1048576. This makes
 # libvirt very slow at exec'ing programs.
@@ -113,8 +122,8 @@ ifeq ($(CI_ENGINE),podman)
        # your /etc/sub{u,g}id allow users to have more IDs.  Unless
        # --keep-uid is supported, let's do this in a way that should
        # work for everyone.
-       CI_MAX_UID = $(shell sed -n "s/^$$USER:[^:]\+://p" /etc/subuid)
-       CI_MAX_GID = $(shell sed -n "s/^$$USER:[^:]\+://p" /etc/subgid)
+       CI_MAX_UID = $(shell sed -n "s/^$(CI_USER_LOGIN):[^:]\+://p" /etc/subuid)
+       CI_MAX_GID = $(shell sed -n "s/^$(CI_USER_LOGIN):[^:]\+://p" /etc/subgid)
        ifeq ($(CI_MAX_UID),)
                CI_MAX_UID = 65536
        endif
@@ -163,6 +172,7 @@ CI_ENGINE_ARGS = \
        --tty \
        $(CI_PODMAN_ARGS) \
        $(CI_PWDB_MOUNTS) \
+       $(CI_HOME_MOUNTS) \
        --volume $(CI_HOST_SRCDIR):$(CI_CONT_SRCDIR):z \
        --workdir $(CI_CONT_SRCDIR) \
        --ulimit nofile=$(CI_ULIMIT_FILES):$(CI_ULIMIT_FILES) \
@@ -179,6 +189,7 @@ ci-prepare-tree: ci-check-engine
                mkdir -p $(CI_SCRATCHDIR); \
                cp /etc/passwd $(CI_SCRATCHDIR); \
                cp /etc/group $(CI_SCRATCHDIR); \
+               mkdir -p $(CI_SCRATCHDIR)/home; \
                echo "Cloning $(CI_GIT_ROOT) to $(CI_HOST_SRCDIR)"; \
                git clone $(CI_GIT_ARGS) $(CI_GIT_ROOT) $(CI_HOST_SRCDIR) || exit 1; \
                for mod in $$(git submodule | awk '{ print $$2 }' | sed -E 's,^../,,g') ; \