From: Jon Paul Maloy <jmaloy(a)redhat.com> Creation of a symbolic link from /sbin to /usr/sbin fails if /sbin exists and is non-empty. This is the case on Ubuntu-23.04. We fix this by removing /sbin before creating the link. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy(a)redhat.com> --- v2: Move the contents of /sbin to /usr/sbin before creating the link. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy(a)redhat.com> --- test/passt.mbuto | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/test/passt.mbuto b/test/passt.mbuto index 90816d2..75d1260 100755 --- a/test/passt.mbuto +++ b/test/passt.mbuto @@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ DIRS="${DIRS} /tmp /sbin /usr/share /var/log /var/lib /etc/ssh /run/sshd /root/. COPIES="${COPIES} small.bin,/root/small.bin medium.bin,/root/medium.bin big.bin,/root/big.bin" FIXUP="${FIXUP}"' + mv /sbin/* /usr/sbin || : + rm -rf /sbin + ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin cat > /sbin/dhclient-script << EOF #!/bin/sh LOG=/var/log/dhclient-script.log @@ -47,7 +50,6 @@ set >> \$LOG exit 0 EOF chmod 755 /sbin/dhclient-script - ln -s /sbin /usr/sbin ln -s /bin /usr/bin ln -s /run /var/run :> /etc/fstab -- 2.39.2
On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 04:12:19PM -0500, Jon Maloy wrote:From: Jon Paul Maloy <jmaloy(a)redhat.com> Creation of a symbolic link from /sbin to /usr/sbin fails if /sbin exists and is non-empty. This is the case on Ubuntu-23.04. We fix this by removing /sbin before creating the link. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy(a)redhat.com> --- v2: Move the contents of /sbin to /usr/sbin before creating the link. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy(a)redhat.com>Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david(a)gibson.dropbear.id.au>--- test/passt.mbuto | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/test/passt.mbuto b/test/passt.mbuto index 90816d2..75d1260 100755 --- a/test/passt.mbuto +++ b/test/passt.mbuto @@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ DIRS="${DIRS} /tmp /sbin /usr/share /var/log /var/lib /etc/ssh /run/sshd /root/. COPIES="${COPIES} small.bin,/root/small.bin medium.bin,/root/medium.bin big.bin,/root/big.bin" FIXUP="${FIXUP}"' + mv /sbin/* /usr/sbin || : + rm -rf /sbin + ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin cat > /sbin/dhclient-script << EOF #!/bin/sh LOG=/var/log/dhclient-script.log @@ -47,7 +50,6 @@ set >> \$LOG exit 0 EOF chmod 755 /sbin/dhclient-script - ln -s /sbin /usr/sbin ln -s /bin /usr/bin ln -s /run /var/run :> /etc/fstab-- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:12:19 -0500 Jon Maloy <jmaloy(a)redhat.com> wrote:From: Jon Paul Maloy <jmaloy(a)redhat.com> Creation of a symbolic link from /sbin to /usr/sbin fails if /sbin exists and is non-empty. This is the case on Ubuntu-23.04. We fix this by removing /sbin before creating the link. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy(a)redhat.com>Applied. By the way, proposal announced last week: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin#Benefit_to_Fedora -- Stefano