[OE-core] [PATCH 3/3] wic: add fakeroot to the populate-extfs step

[Darren Hart]

On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 08:10 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 13:09 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 00:14 -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> > > Without this, files in the generated filesystem pick up the wrong
> > > ownership.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi at linux.intel.com>
> > > ---
> > >  scripts/lib/mic/kickstart/custom_commands/partition.py | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/scripts/lib/mic/kickstart/custom_commands/partition.py b/scripts/lib/mic/kickstart/custom_commands/partition.py
> > > index 302cace..309abee 100644
> > > --- a/scripts/lib/mic/kickstart/custom_commands/partition.py
> > > +++ b/scripts/lib/mic/kickstart/custom_commands/partition.py
> > > @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ class Wic_PartData(Mic_PartData):
> > >          """
> > >          Prepare content for an ext2/3/4 rootfs partition.
> > >          """
> > > -        populate_script = "%s/usr/bin/populate-extfs.sh" % native_sysroot
> > > +        populate_script = "fakeroot %s/usr/bin/populate-extfs.sh" % native_sysroot
> > >          image_extra_space = 10240
> > >  
> > >          image_rootfs = rootfs_dir
> > 
> > We don't use fakeroot, please use pseudo. If pseudo doesn't work, we
> > need to figure out why and fix it.
> > 
> 
> Ultimately this needs to work independently from bitbake. Is that
> practical if we use pseudo here?

Starting to get a bit out of scope for this discussion, but it does
impact the utility of the tool. I don't see a package for pseudo in
either Ubuntu or Fedora. The lack of a package would definitely increase
the barrier to use (lots of people really dislike having to build their
own sources and muck up their filesystem with non-package files).

Has any work already been kicked off to try and get pseudo packaged in
the major distributions? Who would the right people be to work with on
that?

BTW, I'm not arguing for using fakeroot here, just trying to look at the
big picture of using wic and what additional effort might be required to
make it successful.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel