Hi Isaac,
I'm at end of my shift so don't have time for a full review, just a few
notes before I hand-off to the next patch pilot:
- In your changelog entry, please reference this bug report, i.e.:
- I'd recommend making your PPA version be "1:1.35.0-4ubuntu2~ppa5"
- Name your patch "mount-ignore-x-options" as "mount-ignore-x-
options.patch"
- I'd strongly recommend including DEP3 headers on your patch. See
https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep3/. If you refer to the
busybox patch static-sh-alias.patch you can see a good example of this.
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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
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