Bug#560332: pbuilder: Please exclude sys/ from the base tarball

[Junichi Uekawa]

Are you saying anything in addition to bug# 542837 ?
Is this a dupe bug?

At Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:24:10 +0100,
Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> 
> Package: pbuilder
> Version: 0.194
> Severity: wishlist
> User: debian-bsd at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: kfreebsd
> 
> Hi,
> 
> on GNU/kFreeBSD systems, freebsd-utils's postinst runs an init script
> which takes care of setting up various filesystems, including /sys; I've
> reported a bug accordingly (#560127), but I think the solution would
> rather find its place inside pbuilder.
> 
> A few solutions I thought of:
>  - we could try and exclude /sys stuff using --exclude, but since it
>    seems that tar doesn't support anchoring the pattern, we may be
>    excluding other paths which contains “sys” somewhere, which would be
>    kind of nasty. Anyway, patching pbuilder as follows made it possible
>    to create a base.tgz I could use to build a package.
>  - but even then, removing the temporary directory failed because /sys
>    was still mounted. Which led me to believe it might be nicer if
>    pbuilder could check where /sys is not empty, and umounting
>    accordingly if needed (umount $path/sys). The same could be said
>    about /proc, I guess. Maybe controlling this umount behaviour through
>    a configuration option?
> 
> The diff I used (pbuilder-modules):
> -       if ! tar cfz "${BASETGZ}.tmp" * ; then
> +       if ! tar cfz "${BASETGZ}.tmp" ./* --exclude ./sys; then
> 
> Thanks for considering.
> 
> (By the way, I'm tracking your git repository, I can test some patches,
> or some branches, and report back.)
> 
> Mraw,
> KiBi.
> 
> 
> 
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