From 08319f6c776918bc622040fdb5482359bdacdd2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes 'josch' Schauer <josch@mister-muffin.de>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 23:51:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Return the same block number irrespective of what is in /dev

Depending on the mode an on whether mknod works (mount options of
$TMPDIR) different stuff might be in /dev. To make the blocksize in of
the ext2 output format reproducible, ignore the content of /dev.
---
 mmdebstrap | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mmdebstrap b/mmdebstrap
index 23c7f96..a12373a 100755
--- a/mmdebstrap
+++ b/mmdebstrap
@@ -2857,8 +2857,10 @@ sub guess_sources_format {
 sub approx_disk_usage {
     my $directory = shift;
     info "approximating disk usage...";
+    # to return the same number of blocks irrespective of the chosen mode
+    # we exclude /dev from being counted
     open my $fh, '-|', 'du', '--block-size', '1024',
-      '--summarize', '--one-file-system',
+      "--exclude=$directory/dev", '--summarize', '--one-file-system',
       $directory // error "failed to fork(): $!";
     chomp(
         my $du = do { local $/; <$fh> }