script to run spm as a non-root user (for spm build)

spm_non_root.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2

import os
import os.path
import shutil
import subprocess
import sys
import tempfile

import yaml


def call_spm(args, repo_dir):
    spm_tmp = tempfile.mkdtemp()
    try:
        os.mkdir(os.path.join(spm_tmp, 'etc'))
        os.mkdir(os.path.join(spm_tmp, 'cache'))
        os.mkdir(os.path.join(spm_tmp, 'log'))
        with open(os.path.join(spm_tmp, 'etc', 'spm'), 'w') as spm_config:
            yaml.safe_dump({
                'spm_logfile': os.path.join(spm_tmp, 'log', 'spm'),
                'spm_cache_dir': os.path.join(spm_tmp, 'cache'),
                'spm_db': os.path.join(spm_tmp, 'cache', 'packages.db'),
                'spm_build_dir': repo_dir,
                'formula_path': repo_dir,
                'pillar_path': repo_dir,
                'reactor_path': repo_dir,
            }, spm_config)

        subprocess.check_call(['spm', '-c', os.path.join(spm_tmp, 'etc')] +
                              args)
    finally:
        shutil.rmtree(spm_tmp)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    call_spm(sys.argv[1:], 'repo')