Bug 196389

Summary:	makefs(8): when populating METALOG with symlink information, no default user/group is populated
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Adrian Chadd <adrian>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Open ---
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	emaste, grahamperrin
Priority:	---	Keywords:	install
Version:	CURRENT
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any
See Also:	https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234886

Description Adrian Chadd freebsd_committer

2014-12-30 21:24:43 UTC

When doing a non-root user build, install gets run to populate symlinks.

The build is calling INSTALL_SYMLINK to do the dirty work.

This doesn't provide user/group information, so the entry in METALOG looks like this:

./sys type=link mode=0755 link=usr/src/sys

.. and makefs then populates it as the user in question from the filesystem, and you end up with this in the image:

root@raspberry-pi:~ # ls -l /sys
lrwxr-xr-x  1 adrian  adrian  11 Dec 29 01:59 /sys -> usr/src/sys

(I added adrian:adrian to the raspberry pi image later, so the user/group resolves to the name. But it'll show up as 1001:1001 normally as that's my uid/gid.)

Comment 1 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer

2022-12-31 10:12:14 UTC

Is this still an issue?

Comment 2 Ed Maste freebsd_committer

2023-04-18 17:42:34 UTC

(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #1)
> Is this still an issue?

I have no reason to expect this has changed.