[Libguestfs] LVM flakey failures

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 04:06:45PM +0300, Sam Eiderman wrote:
> Oh right, I forgot that I had to do that to inject policycoreutils package into
> the libguestfs appliance (to support g.available(['selinuxrelabel']))
> 
> So if I somehow install systemd 248 from source on my debian docker and then
> create the appliance on it, it should just work I guess.

If the compliation from source overwrites the Debian-installed systemd
files exactly (in the Docker build) then yes.

Rich.

> Thanks!
> 
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 4:01 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 03:51:22PM +0300, Sam Eiderman wrote:
>     > Forgive my ignorance but I am not sure how to inject the newer systemd/
>     udev
>     > into the appliance.
> 
>     If you're using supermin then it should just happen as soon as you
>     upgrade it on the host system.
> 
>     > Debian is always pretty slow on adding the latest code so I'm guessing I
>     need
>     > to compile systemd/udev from source here (v248).
>     >
>     > However, will supermin use my installed binaries or will it download the
>     > package from the apt repo?
> 
>     It copies the installed binaries in, but they must be known to dpkg
>     (IOW you must build a new systemd_<VERSION>.deb file and install it).
> 
>     https://libguestfs.org/supermin.1.html#SUPERMIN-APPLIANCES
> 
>     Rich.
> 
>     > (Of course I can just copy-in the package to the appliance post creation
>     for
>     > some basic testing at the moment)
>     >
>     > Sam
>     >
>     > On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 3:06 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >     On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 02:30:03PM +0300, Sam Eiderman wrote:
>     >     > I think this is exactly the same issue (dmsetup's output is lost by
>     >     udev):
>     >     >
>     >     > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18190
>     >
>     >     Interesting - the fix is in systemd, does upgrading systemd (or udev)
>     >     help?
>     >
>     >     Rich.
>     >
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