bug#40043: closed (`guix pack --format=squashfs` fails on CentOS7)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: `guix pack --format=squashfs` fails on CentOS7 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 17:47:24 +0000

`guix pack --format=squashfs bash-minimal ...` fails on CentOS7 with SELinux 
disabled.

```
$ /var/guix/profiles/per-user/marshjo/current-guix/bin/guix describe
Generation 9    Mar 12 2020 09:28:29    (current)
  guix a595399
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: a595399230a7b1acb0b096b3d5a7474100014299
```
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centos-packages.txt.zst
Description: centos-packages.txt.zst

ar594fgxibr6vkrpjq2n2l5mpyycpp-squashfs-pack.gz.squashfs.drv.bz2
Description: ar594fgxibr6vkrpjq2n2l5mpyycpp-squashfs-pack.gz.squashfs.drv.bz2

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> Re: bug#40043: `guix pack --format=squashfs` fails on CentOS7
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> Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:55:11 +0100
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> Hi Josh,
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> Josh Marshall <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > `guix pack --format=squashfs bash-minimal ...` fails on CentOS7 with SELinux 
> > disabled.
> >
> > ```
> > $ /var/guix/profiles/per-user/marshjo/current-guix/bin/guix describe
> > Generation 9  Mar 12 2020 09:28:29    (current)
> >   guix a595399
> >     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> >     branch: master
> >     commit: a595399230a7b1acb0b096b3d5a7474100014299
> > ```
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> The log you posted reads this:
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> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Creating 4.0 filesystem on 
> /gnu/store/mhhlqyazyvwz72y6dwh56fs1zlrvrl0h-squashfs-pack.gz.squashfs, block 
> size 131072.
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> [...]
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> Number of uids 2
>         unknown (0)
>         nixbld (987)
> Number of gids 2
>         unknown (0)
>         nixbld (980)
> Failed to read existing filesystem - will not overwrite - ABORTING!
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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> I was able to reproduce it on a CentOS 7 system and to strace the
> ‘mksquashfs’ process, and found that this had to do with access to
> SELinux extended attributes.
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> Fixed in commit 53c594cb3f1f783fea18be6da23a863b00c14f5f.
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> Thanks!
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> Ludo’.
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