[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#887232: Bug#887232: virt-sandbox should depend on e2fsprogs explicitly

[Guido Günther]

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Hi,
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:09:08PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 08:12:17PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> > Package: virt-sandbox
> [...]
> > /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt_sandbox/image/sources/base.py contains mkfs.ext3. According to file it is a Python script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable
> [...]
> 
> The use of mkfs.ext3 is found here:
> 
> https://sources.debian.org/src/libvirt-sandbox/0.5.1+git20160404-1/libvirt-sandbox/image/sources/base.py/#L138
> 
> As can be seen /sbin/mkfs.ext3 is passed as an *argument* to the
> virt-sandbox command. I assume mkfs.ext3 is executed inside some
> sort of sandbox.
> 
> A dependency would make sure the command is available *outside* the
> sandbox, but I have no idea if this benefits what's run *inside* the
> sandbox in any way....

The mkfs.ext3 is the one from the host file system so we need a
dependenc here.

> 
> Would be great to hear the maintainers view on this.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas Henriksson
> 
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