Hi Isaac, I see your ping at http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2023-July/090414.html got no replies yet :(
Have you tried contacting upstream through other means such as filing a bug in their bug tracker (https://bugs.busybox.net/) ? As mentioned above, it would be nice to understand how we should deal with this potential delta in the future. > Resubscribing ubuntu-sponsors as I've had no response from the mailing list In this case, I suppose replying to Christian's request: > - a good explanation why you think that wouldn't lock us in into hard to maintain delta and issues to users is still pending. Also, the debdiff should be updated to target noble and rebased on 1:1.36.1-6ubuntu1 which is the version in noble-proposed ATM. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to busybox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2022927 Title: Busybox mount fails to mount Snaps Status in busybox package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Snapd tries to mount squashfs Snaps with non-standard mount flags like "x-gdu.hide" and "x-gvfs-hide", both of which are used to indicate to userspace programs that a given mount should not be shown in a list of mounted partitions/filesystems. Busybox does not support these flags, and so fails with "Invalid argument". $ sudo busybox mount -t tmpfs -o x-gdu-hide test /tmp/test mount: mounting test on /tmp/test failed: Invalid argument These flags can likely be be safely ignored, as they don't actually affect the functionality of the mount. This goes for all mount options starting with "x-", as these generally denote non-standard mount option "extensions". I've created a patch against Busybox which adds an optional configuration item to ignore all mount options beginning with "x-". An additional verbose option has also been added to enable the ability to report that the mount flags have been ignored, rather than silently ignoring them. This is a requirement for a customer project, where we are limited to using Busybox (due to coreutils' GPL-3.0 licence) but would also require using Snaps like checkbox for testing and verification. This was posted on the Busybox mailing list a few months ago (http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2023-March/090202.html) but patch acceptance there seems to take quite a long time, and we need this for the customer. A PPA containing the patched Busybox version is available on the project's Launchpad team: https://launchpad.net/~nemos- team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/busybox/+bug/2022927/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
