[Buildroot] pseudo: remaining issues...

[Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>]

Hi,
Thomas Petazzoni wrote,

> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 22:25:34 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
> > Alternatively, we can revert back to using fakeroot for this release, at
> > the expense of breaking (already previously broken) setups with SELinux
> > on the host.
> 
> I am more and more thinking that this is what we should do. Not only
> pseudo still has issues, but even once all issues will be fixed, it is
> a much much more complicated and annoying solution than fakeroot:
> 
>  - It requires additional dependencies (host-sqlite, host-attr)
> 
>  - It requires a complicated setup, with a daemon, that you need to
>    manually start and stop (because the internal pseudo mechanism to
>    start/stop the daemon doesn't work properly)
> 
> So I really believe we should revert to fakeroot, and investigate what
> this SELinux problem is exactly. Looking more at the original bug at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238802, what is the actual
> problem for us? Why do we care about preserving the SELinux labels of
> files within the fakeroot environment? We don't support SELinux, and
> even if we did, most likely the SELinux labels that exist on the host
> machine would not make sense for the target filesystem.
> 
> So is the real problem with fakeroot on Fedora related to SELinux?

If my 2 cent counts, I would revert the pseudo stuff.
It is so complex just shortly before release, just to have some
exotic configurations fixed.

I am also starting some new project with the next release and would
like to have the old fakeroot stuff.

best regards
 Waldemar