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consider creating homedir in /home

Bug #1836825 reported by Paul Collins
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Bug Description

Using snapped applications directly from jenkins is impossible, due to https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+bug/1620771

We should consider creating the homedir in /home/jenkins (with a compatibility symlink) for new installs.

Migrating on upgrade is probably too difficult to co-ordinate properly to attempt.

Paul Collins (pjdc)
summary: - considering creating homedir in /home
+ consider creating homedir in /home
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Tom Haddon (mthaddon) wrote :

I'm not sure if this is relevant any more. In https://code.launchpad.net/~hloeung/jenkins-slave-charm/+git/jenkins-slave-charm/+merge/373786 the description was "things like snaps needs to write to the home directory, /var/lib/jenkins/snap. Default host.mkdir permissions is 0o555". We should confirm if this is still an issue.

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Guillermo Gonzalez (verterok) wrote :

This is still an issue with snaps, i.e: lxd snap complains (and doesn't refuses work) in the current slave setup with home in /var/lib/jenkins.

the actual output from a job is:

20:43:23 E: + lxc network delete lxdbr0
20:43:23 E: Sorry, home directories outside of /home are not currently supported.
20:43:23 E: See https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/11209 for details.

Another option could be to use a bind mount from /var/lib/jenkins to /home/jenkins

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