[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#838995: No support for "/usr merge"

[Vincent Bernat]

Package: supermin
Version: 5.1.16-1
Severity: normal

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Hey!

I am using a merged /usr and supermin doesn't seem to cope with
it. For example, when running libguestfs-tool-test:

[...]
supermin: kernel: picked kernel vmlinuz-4.7.0-1-amd64
supermin: kernel: picked modules path /lib/modules/4.7.0-1-amd64
supermin: kernel: kernel_version 4.7.0-1-amd64
supermin: kernel: modules /lib/modules/4.7.0-1-amd64
supermin: ext2: creating empty ext2 filesystem '/var/tmp/.guestfs-1000/appliance.d.8441yx1m/root'
supermin: ext2: populating from base image
supermin: *** parent directory not found ***
supermin: When reporting this error:
supermin: please include ALL the debugging information below
supermin: AND tell us what system you are running this on.
     src=/tmp/supermin8ddbc4.tmpdir/base.d/sbin/guestfsd
    dest=/sbin/guestfsd
 dirname=/usr/sbin
basename=guestfsd
supermin: ext2fs_namei: parent directory not found: /usr/sbin: File not found by ext2_lookup
supermin: failure: ext2fs_namei: parent directory not found
libguestfs: error: /usr/bin/supermin exited with error status 1, see debug messages above
libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance
[...]

With a merged /usr, we have a symlink like this for /sbin:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 sept. 27 15:07 /sbin -> usr/sbin

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental-debug'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages supermin depends on:
ii  apt         1.3
ii  cpio        2.11+dfsg-5
ii  e2fslibs    1.43.3-1
ii  libc6       2.24-3
ii  libcomerr2  1.43.3-1

supermin recommends no packages.

supermin suggests no packages.

- -- no debconf information

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