Re: pkg/41971: graphics/dia-python cannot find pygtk module (py25-gtk2 is installed)

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41971; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/41971: graphics/dia-python cannot find pygtk module
        (py25-gtk2 is installed)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:05:15 +0000

 On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:30:05PM +0000, OBATA Akio wrote:
  >>    |  First of all, you should fix your environment.
  >>    |  Change DISPLAY to usable variable, or unset DISPLAY.
  >>
  >> My environment is fine - that's the point really, DISPLAY is
  >> actually a valid value (when it is bogus, the package builds).
  >> The problem is that in the pkg_comp sandbox, there's no way the
  >> application can access the files needed to obtain correct
  >> authorisation - that's (part of) the whole point of using a
  >> sandbox.  So while I still believe there's some python, or pygtk,
  >> or similar problem here, it would also be reasonable to argue that
  >> there;s a pkg_comp bug as well, in that it should probably be
  >> unsetting DISPLAY before it starts any build, as (unless the X
  >> server is doing host based auth, which is even worse than its
  >> other methods) there's not going to be any way for the DISPLAY
  >> setting from outside pkg_comp to be useful inside.  I'll fix my
  >> pkg_comp to do that.
  >  
  >  It is just because your environment is not fine to use with pkg_comp.
  >  As you know, some packages require to access X.
 
 How hard would it be for pkg_comp to do display forwarding out of the
 sandbox as an option? It seems to me that having it clear $DISPLAY is
 the correct default behavior.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost