[pkg-go] Bug#1027787: debos: Unusable with recipes using bookworm suite (or newer)

[Andreas Henriksson]

Control: tags -1 + upstream
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/go-debos/debos/pull/390

Hello,

On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 11:34:27AM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Package: debos
> Version: 1.1.1-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Using debos to build a recipe that uses bookworm or newer suite
> gives a mysterious apt error that suggest running apt --fix-broken
> install.
> 
> This is a symptom of the workaround that was applied for
> https://github.com/go-debos/debos/issues/361
> "New debootstrap is unable to bootstrap pre-bookworm debian derivatives"
[...]

For the record, this first problem was handled upstream at
https://github.com/go-debos/debos/pull/390

[...]
> 2023/01/03 01:19:51 apt | Setting up linux-image-6.0.0-6-arm64 (6.0.12-1) ...
> 2023/01/03 01:19:55 apt | I: /vmlinuz.old is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-6.0.0-6-arm64
> 2023/01/03 01:19:55 apt | I: /initrd.img.old is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-6.0.0-6-arm64
> 2023/01/03 01:19:55 apt | I: /vmlinuz is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-6.0.0-6-arm64
> 2023/01/03 01:19:55 apt | I: /initrd.img is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-6.0.0-6-arm64
> 2023/01/03 01:19:56 apt | /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
> 2023/01/03 01:19:56 apt | update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.0.0-6-arm64
> 2023/01/03 01:19:56 apt | W: No zstd in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip
> 2023/01/03 01:30:32 apt | Container root terminated by signal KILL.
> Powering off.
> open /tmp/fakemachine-194296958/result: no such file or directory

This second problem turned out to be because the default 2Gb memory
setting for fakemachine/qemu is apparently no longer enough to run
update-initramfs against the bookworm arm64 kernel modules in
linux-image-arm64.

Using `debos --memory=4Gb ...` resolved this issue for me.

Maybe it would be useful to consider bumping the default memory setting?

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson