On Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 2:49:26 PM UTC+5:30 Henning Schild wrote:

> wic_fakeroot says that it can eventually be replaced with "true", which 
> would make this patch obsolete. And probably the python symlinking from 
> the previous patch. 
>
> The stretch debian package has gotten a few updates since, and jessie 
> is not support by isar anymore. So maybe worth checking if the fsck 
> hack is still needed, and therefore the whole script. Also what wic 
> calls might have changed, or it might itself "ignore" the problem that 
> my code seems to work around there. 
>

When I tested, this was not the case, stretch would still need this fsck 
hack to
work.
 

>
> Same goes for "export MTOOLS_SKIP_CHECK=1", that might not be required 
> anymore. and should be double-checked. 
>

Not either. We would still need this at least for stretch I think. I will 
check again though
just to verify my observation back then.
 

>
> Henning 
>
>
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 00:26:20 +0530 
> Vijai Kumar K <Vijaikumar_...@mentor.com> wrote: 
>
> > When using --exclude-path option wic copies the rootfs to a new 
> > location and invokes pseudo as a standalone command to rebuild the 
> > database in the new rootfs. 
> > 
> > This is not applicable when using wic_fakeroot. Return 0 for such 
> > standalone invocations in wic_fakeroot. 
> > 
> > It also looks for files.db inside the pseudo directory and throws an 
> > exception if it is not found. Handle that too. 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Vijai Kumar K <Vijaikumar_...@mentor.com> 
> > --- 
> > meta/classes/wic-img.bbclass | 1 + 
> > scripts/wic_fakeroot | 5 +++++ 
> > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) 
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/classes/wic-img.bbclass 
> > b/meta/classes/wic-img.bbclass index a2c9627..b1a7259 100644 
> > --- a/meta/classes/wic-img.bbclass 
> > +++ b/meta/classes/wic-img.bbclass 
> > @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ EOSUDO 
> > export BUILDDIR=${BUILDDIR} 
> > export MTOOLS_SKIP_CHECK=1 
> > mkdir -p ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/../pseudo 
> > + touch ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/../pseudo/files.db 
> > 
> > # create the temp dir in the buildchroot to ensure uniqueness 
> > WICTMP=$(cd ${BUILDCHROOT_DIR}; mktemp -d -p tmp) 
> > diff --git a/scripts/wic_fakeroot b/scripts/wic_fakeroot 
> > index 88a03fa..16b011e 100755 
> > --- a/scripts/wic_fakeroot 
> > +++ b/scripts/wic_fakeroot 
> > @@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ cmd = args[0] 
> > # rootfs/root ... 
> > assert os.geteuid() == 0, "wic_fakeroot must be run as root!" 
> > 
> > +# Check if we are calling the pseudo command itself. Return 1 
> > +# for standalone pseudo operations. 
> > +if cmd.startswith('-'): 
> > + sys.exit(0) 
> > + 
> > # e2fsck <= 1.43.5 returns 1 on non-errors (stretch and before 
> > affected) # treat 1 as safe ... the filesystem was successfully 
> > repaired and is OK if cmd.startswith('fsck.'): 
>
>