Re: Possible issue with linux xattr support?

On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 07:15:57PM +0200, Felix Palmen wrote:
> * Felix Palmen <zirias@freebsd.org> [20230825 19:54]:
> > To verify, I removed xattr support completely from coreutils (and also
> > sed) in commit "linuxsrc: Disable usage of xattr" and indeed, with this
> > change, GNU's install works as it should.
> 
> I now ran into a second case which makes it very likely the xattr
> support is indeed the problem. Trying to create a port for python
> setuptools, calling "setup.py install" with debugging opened showed me
> this error:
> 
> #v+
>   File "/wrkdirs/usr/ports/devel/linuxsrc-setuptools/work/setuptools-63.1.0/setuptools/_distutils/command/install.py", line 706, in run
>     self.run_command(cmd_name)
>   File "/wrkdirs/usr/ports/devel/linuxsrc-setuptools/work/setuptools-63.1.0/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 317, in run_command
>     self.distribution.run_command(command)
>   File "/wrkdirs/usr/ports/devel/linuxsrc-setuptools/work/setuptools-63.1.0/setuptools/dist.py", line 1217, in run_command
>     super().run_command(command)
>   File "/wrkdirs/usr/ports/devel/linuxsrc-setuptools/work/setuptools-63.1.0/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 987, in run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File "/wrkdirs/usr/ports/devel/linuxsrc-setuptools/work/setuptools-63.1.0/setuptools/command/install_egg_info.py", line 42, in run
>     self.execute(
>   File "/wrkdirs/usr/ports/devel/linuxsrc-setuptools/work/setuptools-63.1.0/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 338, in execute
>     util.execute(func, args, msg, dry_run=self.dry_run)
>   File "/wrkdirs/usr/ports/devel/linuxsrc-setuptools/work/setuptools-63.1.0/setuptools/_distutils/util.py", line 344, in execute
>     func(*args)
>   File "/wrkdirs/usr/ports/devel/linuxsrc-setuptools/work/setuptools-63.1.0/setuptools/command/install_egg_info.py", line 63, in copytree
>     unpack_archive(self.source, self.target, skimmer)
>   File "/wrkdirs/usr/ports/devel/linuxsrc-setuptools/work/setuptools-63.1.0/setuptools/archive_util.py", line 53, in unpack_archive
>     driver(filename, extract_dir, progress_filter)
>   File "/wrkdirs/usr/ports/devel/linuxsrc-setuptools/work/setuptools-63.1.0/setuptools/archive_util.py", line 88, in unpack_directory
>     shutil.copystat(f, target)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/shutil.py", line 380, in copystat
>     _copyxattr(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.11/shutil.py", line 322, in _copyxattr
>     names = os.listxattr(src, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: 'setuptools.egg-info/top_level.txt'
> #v-
> 
> I then rebuilt python passing "ac_cv_header_sys_xattr_h=no" to its
> configure script, so it thinks there is no sys/xattr.h header. Indeed,
> this made the problem installing setuptools go away.
> 
> Cheers, Felix

Hi,

1. which fs are you using?
2. jailed?




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