Custom Directory for Builds

[ChrisJBurns]

Am wondering if it's currently possible to define where the build directory get's configured. In our Maven image that we use for maven tasks of building Java projects, we assign a user called builduser and a directory /builduser so that we can control the permissions of the user in what it can or can't do. However, Concourse create the builds folders in /tmp/build/$random-hash/.... Is there an option where we can tell Concourse where to run the builds? So in our case, we want it to run the builds in the /builduser directory. So something like /builduser/build/$randomhash?

[taylorsilva]

Sadly there is no way to specify where the build directory should be located. Whenever I run into this pain I usually end up with this bit at the top of my task scripts.

BUILD_DIR="$(pwd)"

and then I'll prefix $BUILD_DIR to anything that needs an absolute instead of relative path.

[ChrisJBurns]

I found this issue after I asked this discussion item which makes me feel that it isn't going to be addressed anytime soon. The reason I wanted to be able to specify where the build directory get's put is because I wanted to control the permissions of that directory. But as described on the issue I've linked, nonroot build directories aren't possible yet.

[jriddy]

What does this do then? task-config.run.dir https://concourse-ci.org/tasks.html#schema.command

[ChrisJBurns]

That's just the working directory to which the task will start within. It doesn't control the path to which inputs are created