diff --git a/mmdebstrap b/mmdebstrap index e02bd31..ef48fdb 100755 --- a/mmdebstrap +++ b/mmdebstrap @@ -5463,7 +5463,8 @@ sub main() { ); # tar2sqfs and genext2fs do not support extended attributes if ($format eq "squashfs") { - warning "tar2sqfs does not support extended attributes"; + warning + "disabling extended attributes because tar2sqfs only supports some"; } elsif ($format eq "ext2") { warning "genext2fs does not support extended attributes"; } else { @@ -6487,8 +6488,11 @@ C utility, which will create an xz compressed squashfs image with a blocksize of 1048576 bytes in I. The special I C<-> does not work with this format because C can only write to a regular file. If you need your squashfs image be named C<->, then just explicitly pass the -relative path to it like F<./->. Since C does not support extended -attributes, the resulting image will not contain them. +relative path to it like F<./->. The C tool only supports a limited +set of extended attribute prefixes. Therefore, extended attributes are disabled +in the resulting image. If you need them, create a tarball first and remove the +extended attributes from its pax headers. Refer to the B section for +how to achieve this. =item B @@ -6767,7 +6771,16 @@ Instead of a tarball, a squashfs image can be created: By default, B runs B with C<--no-skip --exportable --compressor xz --block-size 1048576>. To choose a different set of options, -pipe the output of B into B manually. +and to filter out all extended attributes not supported by B, pipe +the output of B into B manually like so: + + $ mmdebstrap unstable \ + | mmtarfilter --pax-exclude='*' \ + --pax-include='SCHILY.xattr.user.*' \ + --pax-include='SCHILY.xattr.trusted.*' \ + --pax-include='SCHILY.xattr.security.*' \ + | tar2sqfs --quiet --no-skip --force --exportable --compressor xz \ + --block-size 1048576 unstable-chroot.squashfs By default, debootstrapping a stable distribution will add mirrors for security and updates to the sources.list. diff --git a/tarfilter b/tarfilter index 9feb6d4..6c1c766 100755 --- a/tarfilter +++ b/tarfilter @@ -25,12 +25,20 @@ import fnmatch import re -class FilterAction(argparse.Action): +class PathFilterAction(argparse.Action): def __call__(self, parser, namespace, values, option_string=None): - items = getattr(namespace, "filter", []) + items = getattr(namespace, "pathfilter", []) regex = re.compile(fnmatch.translate(values)) items.append((self.dest, regex)) - setattr(namespace, "filter", items) + setattr(namespace, "pathfilter", items) + + +class PaxFilterAction(argparse.Action): + def __call__(self, parser, namespace, values, option_string=None): + items = getattr(namespace, "paxfilter", []) + regex = re.compile(fnmatch.translate(values)) + items.append((self.dest, regex)) + setattr(namespace, "paxfilter", items) def main(): @@ -39,22 +47,46 @@ def main(): Filters a tarball on standard input by the same rules as the dpkg --path-exclude and --path-include options and writes resulting tarball to standard output. See dpkg(1) for information on how these two options work in detail. + +Similarly, filter out unwanted pax extended headers. This is useful in cases +where a tool only accepts certain xattr prefixes. For example tar2sqfs only +supports SCHILY.xattr.user.*, SCHILY.xattr.trusted.* and +SCHILY.xattr.security.* but not SCHILY.xattr.system.posix_acl_default.*. + +Both types of options use Unix shell-style wildcards: + + * matches everything + ? matches any single character + [seq] matches any character in seq + [!seq] matches any character not in seq """ ) parser.add_argument( "--path-exclude", metavar="pattern", - action=FilterAction, + action=PathFilterAction, help="Exclude path matching the given shell pattern.", ) parser.add_argument( "--path-include", metavar="pattern", - action=FilterAction, + action=PathFilterAction, help="Re-include a pattern after a previous exclusion.", ) + parser.add_argument( + "--pax-exclude", + metavar="pattern", + action=PaxFilterAction, + help="Exclude pax header matching the given globbing pattern.", + ) + parser.add_argument( + "--pax-include", + metavar="pattern", + action=PaxFilterAction, + help="Re-include a pax header after a previous exclusion.", + ) args = parser.parse_args() - if not hasattr(args, "filter"): + if not hasattr(args, "pathfilter") and not hasattr(args, "paxfilter"): from shutil import copyfileobj copyfileobj(sys.stdin.buffer, sys.stdout.buffer) @@ -63,18 +95,18 @@ dpkg(1) for information on how these two options work in detail. # same logic as in dpkg/src/filters.c/filter_should_skip() prefix_prog = re.compile(r"^([^*?[\\]*).*") - def filter_should_skip(member): + def path_filter_should_skip(member): skip = False - if not args.filter: + if not hasattr(args, "pathfilter"): return False - for (t, r) in args.filter: + for (t, r) in args.pathfilter: if r.match(member.name[1:]) is not None: if t == "path_include": skip = False else: skip = True if skip and (member.isdir() or member.issym()): - for (t, r) in args.filter: + for (t, r) in args.pathfilter: if t != "path_include": continue prefix = prefix_prog.sub(r"\1", r.pattern) @@ -83,14 +115,32 @@ dpkg(1) for information on how these two options work in detail. return False return skip + def pax_filter_should_skip(header): + if not hasattr(args, "paxfilter"): + return False + skip = False + for (t, r) in args.paxfilter: + if r.match(header) is None: + continue + if t == "pax_include": + skip = False + else: + skip = True + return skip + # starting with Python 3.8, the default format became PAX_FORMAT, so this # is only for compatibility with older versions of Python 3 with tarfile.open(fileobj=sys.stdin.buffer, mode="r|*") as in_tar, tarfile.open( fileobj=sys.stdout.buffer, mode="w|", format=tarfile.PAX_FORMAT ) as out_tar: for member in in_tar: - if filter_should_skip(member): + if path_filter_should_skip(member): continue + member.pax_headers = { + k: v + for k, v in member.pax_headers.items() + if not pax_filter_should_skip(k) + } if member.isfile(): with in_tar.extractfile(member) as file: out_tar.addfile(member, file)