Hi, * Christian Kastner [Sat Apr 11, 2026 at 09:41:55AM +0200]: > On 2026-04-10 23:59, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > On Wed, 2026-04-08 at 12:45 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > >> On Wed, 2026-04-08 at 12:06 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> >>> IMO detection of the chroot is a good approach. We already have > >>> various software pieces that behave differently when they detect a > >>> chroot (systemctl, glibc postinst, etc). > >>> > >>> I think this would also help users that run in a rescue environment, > >>> as (per my limited understanding), hostonly would also likely > >>> produce something that won't boot. [...] > >> I forwarded this issue to upstream: > >> https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/issues/2355 > > The discussed solution in dracut: > > https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/pull/2369 > > > > In case this patch is applied in dracut, autopkgtest-build-qemu should > > set this environment variable during the build: > > > > DRACUT_EXTRA_ARGS=--no-hostonly > While an option, I'm not entirely sure if autopkgtest is the correct > place to do this. The actual image build happens through the lower-level > vmdb2, so fixing the problem generally would probably require fixing it > in vmdb2. > > Looping the autopkgtest and vmdb2 maintainers in, in case they see this > differently. I'd like to highlight and echo Chris' (Hofstaedtler) comment: | As I wrote earlier, I believe this is non-ideal. Each image builder | will have to learn it, and each image builder will do something | different. You'll end up with various configurations in the wild | that you don't know that they exist. *Please* let's avoid a solution for which every single image builder tool needs to special case things. (Speaking with my hat as author of grml-debootstrap (which exists since 2006) and project lead of the Grml rescue live system, and being a previous contributor and maintainer of initramfs-tools. Please don't think about autopkgtest + vmdb2 only, there are *many* image builder tools around.) regards -mika-
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