[PATCH 1/2] docs: Highlight UID issue
Stephen Finucane
stephen at that.guru
Sat Dec 24 05:51:18 AEDT 2016
This occurs on Fedora 24, Fedora 25. There was a brief mention of it in
the docker-compose file but no resolution was offered.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>
---
docs/development/installation.md | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/development/installation.md b/docs/development/installation.md
index 36d2fdf..16cb3ae 100644
--- a/docs/development/installation.md
+++ b/docs/development/installation.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ development environment. This is the preferred installation method. To
configure Patchwork using Docker:
1. Install [**Docker**][ref-docker] and [**docker-compose**][ref-compose].
+
2. Build the images. This will download over 200MB from the internet:
$ docker-compose build
@@ -75,12 +76,36 @@ when you cloned the repo. For more information, see `man docker run`.
**NOTE:** If you see an error like the below:
- ERROR: Couldn't connect to the Docker daemon at
- http+docker://localunixsocket - is it running?
+ ERROR: Couldn't connect to the Docker daemon at http+docker://localunixsocket - is it running?
ensure you have correctly installed Docker, added your user to the `docker`
group, and started the daemon, per the [Docker documentation][ref-docker].
+**NOTE:** If you see an error like the below:
+
+ py.error.EACCES: [Permission denied]: open('/home/patchwork/patchwork/.tox/py27-django18/.tox-config1', 'w')
+
+your host user account is likely using a different UID to the one hardcoded in
+the Dockerfile. You can confirm this like so:
+
+ $ echo $UID
+ 1234
+
+If this is something other than `1000`, you must must modify the `Dockerfile`
+found in `tools/docker` to use your UID and then rebuild:
+
+ $ sed -i "/ARG UID=/c\ARG UID=$(echo $UID)" tools/docker/Dockerfile
+ $ docker-compose build web
+
+This change must be retained in the event that you rebuild the container. You
+can "hide" the change from Git like so:
+
+ $ git update-index --assume-unchanged tools/docker/Dockerfile
+ $ git update-index --skip-worktree tools/docker/Dockerfile
+
+This should be resolved in a future release when we support docker-compose 2.1
+syntax in `docker-compose.yml`.
+
## Vagrant-Based Installation
Patchwork provides a Vagrant-based environment as an alternative to Docker.
@@ -88,10 +113,11 @@ Like Docker, Vagrant can be used to quickly configure Patchwork in a
development environment. To configure Patchwork using Vagrant:
1. Install [**Vagrant**][ref-vagrant]
+
2. Run `vagrant up` from the project directory:
- $ cd patchwork
- $ vagrant up
+ $ cd patchwork
+ $ vagrant up
Once stacked, follow the on-screen instructions. For more information on
Vagrant itself, please refer to the [Vagrant documentation][ref-vagrant].
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