[arch-general] unionfs

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Baho Utot<baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 11:28 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>> Baho Utot wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 10:46 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>> >
>> >> Baho Utot wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I have setup a new computer with a clean install with
>> >>> kernel26-2.6.29.4-1 does this kernel support unionfs?
>> >>> This is the second system I have had trouble with.
>> >>>
>> >>> Devtools always complains like this
>> >>>
>> >>> building union chroot
>> >>> ERROR: No unionfs available. Abandon ship!
>> >>> FAILURE: vsftpd-2.1.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
>> >>>
>> >>> I am using devtools 0.6.4-1 the latest I think
>> >>>
>> >>> When I use devtools with kernel26 2.6.27.10-1 on an older system
>> >>> devtools works
>> >>>
>> >>> Anyone got a clue what is wrong?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> The same as previously...   recent kernels do no support unionfs so you
>> >> need a git version of makechrootpkg with fixes it to use unionfs.
>> >>
>> >> Allan
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > Can you tell Aaron I found an error with his latest git version of
>> > devtools the makechrootpkg
>> >
>> > devtools-360fcd2f0ecaba3c8bb0e56e7fc6014dacfb3ec7
>> >
>> > line 227 on the version I just fetched
>> > near the bottom of the script (makechrootpkg)
>> >
>> > is
>> >     pkgfile=${chrootdir}/union/pkgdest/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-*
>> > ${PKGEXT}
>> >
>> > should be
>> >
>> >     pkgfile=${chrootdir}/rw/pkgdest/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-*
>> > ${PKGEXT}
>> >
>> > It fails to copy the completed/built package from the chroot to the
>> > directory where you have the PKGBUILD file
>> >
>>
>> I have no problems, and if you think about it, the union dir is a union
>> between the root and rw directories so this is the same thing...
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>
>>
>
> Then why doesn't it work?
>
> The package is left in rw/pkgdest
> after I change it the package is moved to the dir the PKGBUILD is in.

The only reason it wouldn't work is that rw and union are _not_ the
same at that point in time.