905290 - bootstrap fails if user is not in the sudoers file (root / su) support

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: Bootstrap Configuration, defect)

Description

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Fedora 19 x64 - the defaults for the installer in Fedora does not make the user an Administrator / sudo user.


[kbrosnan@host-5-240 src]$ ./bootstrap.py 
Executing as root: sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries" "GNOME Software Development"

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

    #1) Respect the privacy of others.
    #2) Think before you type.
    #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

[sudo] password for kbrosnan: 
kbrosnan is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./bootstrap.py", line 142, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "./bootstrap.py", line 133, in main
    dasboot.bootstrap()
  File "/tmp/tmpVrDDFn/mozboot/bootstrap.py", line 78, in bootstrap
    try:
  File "/tmp/tmpVrDDFn/mozboot/fedora.py", line 20, in install_system_packages
  File "/tmp/tmpVrDDFn/mozboot/base.py", line 115, in yum_groupinstall
  File "/tmp/tmpVrDDFn/mozboot/base.py", line 103, in run_as_root
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 542, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '[u'sudo', u'yum', u'groupinstall', 'Development Tools', 'Development Libraries', 'GNOME Software Development']' returned non-zero exit status 1

Comment 1

[Andrew McGuinness]

Same applies to "mach bootstrap"

Running the bootstrap as root doesn't work either.

At the very least, if there is no workaround, then sudo access should be listed as a requirement on https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/linux_build.html

Comment 2

[Andrew McGuinness]

never mind, found "mach bootstrap --no-system-changes" which worked for me.