On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 16:12:57 -0700 Manphiz <manp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been dealing with similar spurious error of piuparts when testing > some packages that it reports that package purging left files on system: > > ,---- > | 0m45.6s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system: > | /etc/default/locale -> ../locale.conf not owned > | /etc/vconsole.conf -> default/keyboard not owned > | /root/.ssh/ not owned > | /var/cache/private/ not owned > | /var/lib/private/ not owned > | /var/lib/systemd/coredump/ not owned > | /var/lib/systemd/ephemeral-trees/ not owned > | /var/lib/systemd/pstore/ not owned > | /var/log/private/ not owned > | > | 0m45.6s ERROR: FAIL: Installation and purging test. > `----
> Wondering what is the rational to check not-owned files? not a maintainer, but id say there's a clear rationale to flag these -- installing and then purging a package should not usually create files not owned (here "not owned" means: not owned by a package, ie stuff that should have been purged). > Is it safe to just ignore them in piuparts? I think so. You can work round the issue by passing "--fake-essential-packages=systemd-sysv" to piuparts (if calling from sbuild use $piuparts_opts in .sbuildrc) or you can install systemd-sysv in the chroot that it uses (eg --include argument to mmdebootstrap and --basetargz argument to piuparts) (I think this works installing systemd-sysv before the package being tested, and so these are there when piuparts records the initial state of the system, and therefore don't appear to be "created" when it re-checks later. but i may be wrong. it also makes the test closer to what the user will see imo) I believe that most of these (all but the first 2) are made by systemd (or systemd-tmpfiles?) as part of normal operation -- it's arguably not a bug in systemd (but arguably systemd should tell the admin to consider removing such packages when it is purged? ) I think the first 2 are potentially bugs in whatever makes /etc/default/locale and /etc/vconsole.conf (shoulnt these be labelled conffiles / configuration files?)
