Control: affects -1 - piuparts debos vmdb2
Control: reassign -1 piuparts

On Tue, 28 May 2024 13:14:00 +0200 Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de>
wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 debootstrap
> Control: affects -1 + piuparts debos vmdb2
> 
> On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 12:08:37PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > When piuparts runs debootstrap, it is pointed to the default --
tmpdir,
> > which absent any configuration or env var is /tmp/, which is now
(since
> > systemd 256~rc3-3) a tmpfs, which as it is expected it is mounted
with
> > noudev for security reasons, but debootstrap doesn't like that as
it
> > wants to create fresh node files.
> 
> This is a problem in debootstrap. debootstrap should refrain from
> creating device nodes when doing so is not possible. Most consumers
of
> debootstrap bind mount /dev already. Reassigning.

Feel free to work on that if you like, but it is unrelated

> > Please make piuparts --tmpdir default to /var/tmp if nothing is
set, to
> > avoid this issue.
> 
> Please don't as that would make reduce piuparts performance to crap.

Currently /tmp is on the same filesystem as /var/tmp, so there are zero
performance differences. It's just a default, you can change it as you
see fit if you have some special local setup.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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