emerge-gitclone seems broken in 3033.3.11 SDK

[da-x]

This is what I am getting running emerge-gitclone under the SDK:

Output:

>> Starting git clone in /var/lib/portage/scripts
Cloning into '/var/lib/portage/scripts'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 272809, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (4240/4240), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1330/1330), done.
remote: Total 272809 (delta 1326), reused 4173 (delta 1298), pack-reused 268569
Receiving objects: 100% (272809/272809), 91.66 MiB | 2.45 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (120672/120672), done.
>>> Git clone in /var/lib/portage/scripts successful
fatal: not a git repository: ../../../../.git/modules/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay
fatal: could not reset submodule index

[da-x]

Just to be clear, this is tried under the container spawned using sudo systemd-nspawn --image=flatcar_developer_container.bin as suggested in Building custom kernel modules | Flatcar Container Linux.

[tormath1]

Hello @da-x and thanks for the report,

We recently merged our main repositories (flatcar/portage-stable and flatcar/coreos-overlay) into flatcar/scripts and as a big change never comes alone it seems we missed to include this change in the latest release: flatcar/flatcar-dev-util#15.

While it should be fixed in the next releases, could you try with this nightly build: http://bincache.flatcar-linux.net/images/amd64/3033.3.11+nightly-20230417-2100/ ?

[t-lo]

Hello @da-x ,

Please pardon the mishap - the version of emerge-gitclone shipped with the last releases is indeed unable to handle the new unified scripts repo. As Mathieu stated we've fixed this issue in main and in all release branches (channels) and will roll out a fix with the next patch release within at most 2 weeks.

Using last nightly's devcontainer as proposed above is indeed a good option to proceed.

Another workaround until the fix is rolled out would be to wget the newer version of emerge-gitclone used in both the nightly devcontainer as well as in the upcoming LTS 3033 release (ref 9240efb80504da934b2315cc89bddb81b739b214). Right after the sudo systemd-nspawn ... step, run

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flatcar/flatcar-dev-util/9240efb80504da934b2315cc89bddb81b739b214/emerge-gitclone

then use the emerge-gitclone version just downloaded instead of the one shipped in the devcontainer.

[da-x]

Thanks! It's very helpful. I'll update

[da-x]

Workaround worked. Thanks

[tormath1]

Hello @da-x, for your information we just released a new set of maintenance releases including the fix for this issue (https://www.flatcar.org/releases#release-3033.3.12). Everything should be back on track from now: happy hacking on Flatcar and feel free to join the #flatcar Matrix channel to share your experiments. :D