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cmd/initContainer: Avoid RPM failures due to unexpected file owners #640

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@debarshiray debarshiray commented Dec 2, 2020

When running rootless, files and directories bind mounted from the
host operating system can have their ownership listed as
nobody:nobody. This is because the UIDs and GIDs that actually own
those locations are not available inside the container.

Some distribution packages are particular about the file ownerships of
some of these locations. eg., Fedora's filesystem RPM. Encountering
nobody:nobody as the owner can fail package management transactions
involving such packages leading to unforeseen consequences.

Therefore, configure RPM to leave these locations alone.

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Left a comment with a proposed change. Apart from that, looks good to me. Did not test locally, yet. Great work!

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When running rootless, files and directories bind mounted from the
host operating system can have their ownership listed as
nobody:nobody. This is because the UIDs and GIDs that actually own
those locations are not available inside the container.

Some distribution packages are particular about the file ownerships of
some of these locations. eg., Fedora's filesystem RPM. Encountering
nobody:nobody as the owner can fail package management transactions
involving such packages leading to unforeseen consequences.

Therefore, configure RPM to leave these locations alone.

containers#640
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Note that this doesn't seem to be working as I thought it would.

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@HarryMichal HarryMichal added this to the Release 0.2.0 milestone Feb 26, 2021
@HarryMichal HarryMichal added 2. Container Realm The issue is related to what happens inside of a toolbox container 3. Bugfix Fixes a bug 6. Minor Change Should not cause breakage labels Feb 26, 2021
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debarshiray added a commit to debarshiray/toolbox that referenced this pull request Nov 17, 2021
When running rootless, files and directories bind mounted from the
host operating system can have their ownership listed as
nobody:nobody. This is because the UIDs and GIDs that actually own
those locations are not available inside the container.

Some distribution packages are particular about the file ownerships of
some of these locations. eg., Fedora's filesystem and libvirt-libs
RPMs. Encountering nobody:nobody as the owner can fail package
management transactions involving such packages leading to unforeseen
consequences.

Therefore, configure RPM to leave these locations alone.

containers#640
When running rootless, files and directories bind mounted from the
host operating system can have their ownership listed as
nobody:nobody. This is because the UIDs and GIDs that actually own
those locations are not available inside the container.

Some distribution packages are particular about the file ownerships of
some of these locations. eg., Fedora's filesystem, flatpak and
libvirt-libs RPMs. Encountering nobody:nobody as the owner can fail
package management transactions involving such packages leading to
unforeseen consequences.

Therefore, configure RPM to leave these locations alone.

containers#640
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This fixes the filesystem, flatpak and libvirt-libs RPMs.

We might have to tweak the list of paths in %_netsharedpath over time as Toolbox evolves and problems with other RPMs come to light.

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@debarshiray debarshiray merged commit 7542f5f into containers:main Nov 17, 2021
@debarshiray debarshiray deleted the wip/rishi/netsharedpath branch November 17, 2021 02:18
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juhp commented Nov 17, 2021

This is really great news!

allisonkarlitskaya added a commit to allisonkarlitskaya/lisbox that referenced this pull request Dec 10, 2021
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