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Bug 1352154 - Tracker for %post compatibility
Summary: Tracker for %post compatibility
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Status: ASSIGNED
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm-ostree
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Colin Walters
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 1473402 1348671 1352152 1367585 1367587 1377367 1377369 1408530 1415451 1456278 1569722 1657041 1657367 1702226 1717966 1817258 1827441 2132103
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-07-01 19:59 UTC by Colin Walters
Modified: 2023-01-19 09:15 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Issue Tracker FC-588 0 None None None 2022-09-06 14:24:32 UTC
Sourceware 22089 0 P2 UNCONFIRMED [PATCH] locale: Call fchmod() before calling link() 2021-01-27 10:58:27 UTC

Description Colin Walters 2016-07-01 19:59:38 UTC
rpm-ostree is a new model for rpm packages on using ostree[0].  In order to implement atomic upgrades without special filesystem support, it runs %post scripts using rofiles-fuse[1]

This means that %post scripts, whenever replacing an existing file, must do create-new-then-rename, rather than open(O_TRUNC).  This is a core distinction between `/usr/bin/install` and `/usr/bin/cp`.

Additionally, if your %post script is generated cached state derived purely from /usr content (e.g. ldconfig, gtk-update-icon-cache), please consider moving it to /usr, so that the cache state is stored with the data. 

The initial rpm-ostree implementation of %post is here: https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/pull/338

[0] https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual/adapting-existing/
[1] https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/blob/master/man/rofiles-fuse.xml

Comment 1 Colin Walters 2016-08-16 21:16:11 UTC
Also, rpm-ostree doesn't currently implement Lua, and we'd like to avoid doing so for as long as possible.  For more information, see:

http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-ecosystem/2016-August/000391.html

Comment 2 Jan Kurik 2017-08-15 09:18:26 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 27 development cycle.
Changing version to '27'.

Comment 5 Miroslav Suchý 2017-11-28 11:43:10 UTC
ad #4 (the code in that PR will go away, but anyway) I do not get why /var/cache should be read only. That does not make sense to me.

Comment 6 Colin Walters 2017-11-28 14:13:17 UTC
(In reply to Miroslav Suchý from comment #5)
> ad #4 (the code in that PR will go away, but anyway) I do not get why
> /var/cache should be read only. That does not make sense to me.

There's a bit more information at
https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual/adapting-existing/

But to elaborate on that, in order to support reliable "offline" updates as well as rollbacks, we have a strict rule that the update system does *not* touch user data.  /var is user data.

We *do* support "rpm-ostree livefs" today which will run `systemd-tmpfiles` which will process /var - in the case of mock, rpm-ostree synthesizes a tmpfiles.d snippet.  This is significantly more controlled than allowing arbitrary %post to write directly to /var.

See also https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/pull/888 and http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-ecosystem/2017-July/000481.html

Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2018-02-20 15:27:02 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 28 development cycle.
Changing version to '28'.

Comment 9 Colin Walters 2018-11-08 17:24:08 UTC
Another case here is that the `update-alternatives` system stores links in `/var`, which is wrong.  They should be moved under `/usr`.

Comment 10 Enrico Tagliavini 2019-04-23 09:37:44 UTC
Want to add the following two too?

bug #1702226

bug #1702233

Comment 11 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 19:37:53 UTC
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Comment 12 Dusty Mabe 2019-05-02 21:09:03 UTC
This is a tracker.. moving to rawhide.

Comment 13 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 17:10:32 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to '31'.

Comment 14 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 19:10:55 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to 31.

Comment 15 Dusty Mabe 2019-08-14 13:50:28 UTC
Switching back to rawhide since this is a running tracker.


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