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Bug#836211: marked as done (dpkg: Cannot upgrade some packages on overlayfs: Invalid cross-device link)

Your message dated Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:34:32 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#836211: dpkg: Cannot upgrade some packages on overlayfs: Invalid cross-device link
has caused the Debian Bug report #836211,
regarding dpkg: Cannot upgrade some packages on overlayfs: Invalid cross-device link
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.18.10
Severity: normal

Hi,

overlayfs does not support renaming directories when the directories
live in the lower filesystem:

 * Directory renames only allowed on "pure upper" (already created on
 * upper filesystem, never copied up).  Directories which are on lower or
 * are merged may not be renamed.  For these -EXDEV is returned and
 * userspace has to deal with it.  This means, when copying up a
 * directory we can rely on it and ancestors being stable.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v4.8-rc2/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c#L318-L322

Unfortunately this means that dpkg fails at least in the case where a
directory is converted into a file: apt 1.3~rc2 moves
/usr/share/bug/apt/script to /usr/share/bug/apt . This causes dpkg to
fail when running in an overlayfs with the following error:

# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/apt_1.3~rc3_amd64.deb 
(Reading database ... 11401 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../archives/apt_1.3~rc3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking apt (1.3~rc3) over (1.3~rc2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/apt_1.3~rc3_amd64.deb (--install):
 unable to move aside './usr/share/bug/apt' to install new version: Invalid cross-device link
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-5) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/apt_1.3~rc3_amd64.deb

I don't know what the correct workaround should be.

This can break pre-build upgrades in sbuild when the schroot is of
overlayfs type.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0   1.0.6-8
ii  libc6        2.23-5
ii  liblzma5     5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
ii  libselinux1  2.5-3
ii  tar          1.29b-1
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt  1.3~rc3

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 4.10.0-1~exp1

On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, Guillem Jover wrote:
> [ Reassigning to linux, where this can be fixed. Upstream has provided
>   a preliminary patch to this bug report, which might need testing and
>   perhaps some polishing? Trimmed irrelevant information. ]

I verified today that the issue is gone with Linux 4.12 and apparently
the appropriate patches have been merged for Linux 4.10 already (merged by
linus in commit ff0f962ca3c38239b299a70e7eea27abfbb979c3).

So I'm closing this bug.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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