#1064442 fai-client - Unable to disable mkramdisk

Package:
fai-client
Source:
fai-client
Submitter:
Bastian Blank
Date:
2024-02-23 19:24:09 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1064442#5
Date:
2024-02-22 08:30:17 UTC
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It is impossible to disable the use of mkramdisk.  By default this tries
to setup a tmpfs for /var/lib/dpkg and does scary copy operations.

It expects an environment variable from the outside, which can never be
empty.

Bastian
#1064442#10
Date:
2024-02-22 10:17:40 UTC
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The problem is:

| : ${FAI_RAMDISKS:="$target/var/lib/dpkg"}

:= sets the variable if it is unset _or empty_.  So just defining
FAI_RAMDISKS="" does not work.

The definition of this variable needs to be moved up one tool into fai
itself, so it can provide an empty value.

Bastian
#1064442#15
Date:
2024-02-23 13:53:58 UTC
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This is the very easy fix:

 # set default dirs if FAI_RAMDISKS not already set
-: ${FAI_RAMDISKS:="$target/var/lib/dpkg"}
+: ${FAI_RAMDISKS="$target/var/lib/dpkg"}


@wwaldi: Do you think it's still wrong?
#1064442#20
Date:
2024-02-23 15:09:29 UTC
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I don't know that syntax.  A proper solution would be to move
FAI_RAMDISKS into fai (so it can be set in the variable fileS) and
always use parameters to mkramdisk.

Bastian
#1064442#25
Date:
2024-02-23 19:20:54 UTC
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We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
fai, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1064442@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> (supplier of updated fai package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:31:45 +0100
Source: fai
Architecture: source
Version: 6.2.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>
Changed-By: Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>
Closes: 1063146 1064439 1064441 1064442
Changes:
 fai (6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * set default value for FAI_RAMDISKS in fai, Closes: #1064442
   * remove unused script check-cross-arch, no not use qemu-debootstrap,
     Closes: #1064441, #1064439
   * fai-disk-inifo: make sure functions are defined, closes: #1063146
   * install_packages: check apt-cache instead of .bin file
   * Init.pm: do not match all md devices, LVM on RAID now works again
   * setup-storage: add option -p
   * fai-make-nfsroot: add dracut module network, make sure functions are
     defined for remote login
   * subroutines: remove unused code for starting rsyslogd
   * fix multiple tests
   * GRUB_EFI/10-setup: force setting target architecture
     so fai-diskimage also works in a non-efi environment
   * package_config/DEBIAN: remove package eject
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