Basic Directory Layout

Edit Package filesystem

This package installs the basic directory structure. It also includes
the home directories of system users.

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Filename Size Changed
LICENSE.txt 0000001023 1023 Bytes
directory.list 0000004707 4.6 KB
directory.list64 0000000136 136 Bytes
filesystem.changes 0000063980 62.5 KB
filesystem.spec 0000008153 7.96 KB
ghost.list 0000000041 41 Bytes
languages 0000000563 563 Bytes
languages.man 0000000075 75 Bytes
Revision 155 (latest revision is 172)
Comments 1

Stefan Kluth's avatar

Dear filesystem,

I have a somewhat tricky problem with this package: when building a singularity container image with singularity build --fakeroot <name>.sif <name>.def an error

error: unpacking of archive failed on file /dev: cpio: chown

is thrown. Everything else installs fine.

Looking at the "directory.list" there is an entry

0755 root root /dev

which could possibly be the source of the error.

In a container, /dev is by default bind-mounted from the host and thus trying to create /dev during the install causes the error. Other bind-mounted directories exist (/tmp, /proc, /sys), with different permissions from /dev in your .list files, and these don't cause problems.

Do you think filesystem could be made to test if a /dev already exists (because it installs in a container with /dev bind-mounted from the host) and then don't install, or use different permissions, or do something else graceful?

Regards, Stefan

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