On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 04:06:45PM +0300, Sam Eiderman
wrote:> Oh right, I forgot that I had to do that to inject policycoreutils package
into
> the libguestfs appliance (to
support?g.available(['selinuxrelabel']))
>
> So if I somehow install systemd 248 from source on my debian docker and
then
> create the appliance on it, it should just work I guess.
If the compliation from source overwrites the Debian-installed systemd
files exactly (in the Docker build) then yes.
Rich.
> Thanks!
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 4:01 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at
redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 03:51:22PM +0300, Sam Eiderman wrote:
> > Forgive my ignorance but I am not sure how to inject the newer
systemd/
> udev
> > into the appliance.
>
> If you're using supermin then it should just happen as soon as you
> upgrade it on the host system.
>
> > Debian is always pretty slow on adding the latest code so I'm
guessing I
> need
> > to compile systemd/udev from source here (v248).
> >
> > However, will supermin use my installed binaries or will it
download the
> > package from the apt repo?
>
> It copies the installed binaries in, but they must be known to dpkg
> (IOW you must build a new systemd_<VERSION>.deb file and install
it).
>
> https://libguestfs.org/supermin.1.html#SUPERMIN-APPLIANCES
>
> Rich.
>
> > (Of course I can just copy-in the package to the appliance post
creation
> for
> > some basic testing at the moment)
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 3:06 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at
redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >? ? ?On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 02:30:03PM +0300, Sam Eiderman wrote:
> >? ? ?> I think this is exactly the same issue (dmsetup's
output is lost by
> >? ? ?udev):
> >? ? ?>
> >? ? ?> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18190
> >
> >? ? ?Interesting - the fix is in systemd, does upgrading systemd
(or udev)
> >? ? ?help?
> >
> >? ? ?Rich.
> >
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