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Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1709029
Title:
Tests failing on xenial due to missing fakeroot command
Status in Ubuntu Image:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-image package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-image source package in Xenial:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[Impact]
Currently the xenial ubuntu-image package fails autopkgtests due to
the missing fakeroot dependency. Xenial has an older mkfs.ext4 that
does not support a parameter that all the other series are using.
Because of that, fakeroot is not really used on this release as by
default the first call of mkfs.ext4 which is assuming the existence of
the '-d' option is supposed to fail and then u-i is moving on to using
a fallback method of copying rootfs contents into the filesystem. To
the first call of the mkfs.ext4 call we have recently added fakeroot
(due to a security vulnerability discovered).
The failure of calling mkfs.ext4 with an unrecognized parameter and
calling fakeroot mkfs.ext4 when fakeroot is not installed both
generate different errors (the first one causes run() to exit with
error and the second one rises a FileNotFoundError exception). We can
easily support both cases, but then we are encountering code coverage
issues - as in the best case we want to have the same code for all
supported series. It's not easy to mock this case in unit tests as in
theory we will never be able to reach this FileNotFoundError branch on
non-xenial systems. It basically requires a lot of unnecessary work
that's not bringing any real merits.
[Fix]
Just dropping this part of the delta and adding the fakeroot
dependency fixes all problems with little effort.
[Test Case]
Make sure that the xenial autopkgtests pass.
[Regression Potential]
None - really. We're only adding the fakeroot dependency that is
installed on all the other series for the same ubuntu-image version
already. Installing this dependency does not change anything in the
logic of ubuntu-image - the only time it is used is for the first
mkfs.ext4 command which always fails (due to being too old to support
the required options).
[Original description]
There is a delta in xenial. We need to support missing fakeroot.
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