- prefer using `which` over hard coded paths
- it is redundant to check that the bin pointed to the return of
`which` exists and is executable, `which` already gives us
assurance of that if it returns true!
- the redirection of output (`2>/dev/null`) seems to be
unnecessary from my testing.
the instances relatnig to fdisk and losetup in functions/defaults.sh have
been left as they are since they get executed by `lb config` which can run
without sudo elevation unlike `lb build` and in that case `which` would
fail to find these binaries resulting in error.
this also fixes a bug showing an error for missing debootstrap - this tool
requires sudo privileges to run and thus is not found via a none elevated
which search.
Gbp-Dch: Short
Closes: #952927
Recent versions of Linux, parted or some other bit of software cause
partition devices, like /dev/loop0p1 to be created when running parted
mkpart. However, these devices are not cleaned up when running
losetup -d to remove /dev/loop0 later, so they linger around and confuse
mkfs (which refuses to make a filesystem, thinking there are partitions):
mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)
mkfs.vfat: Partitions or virtual mappings on device '/dev/loop0', not making filesystem (use -I to override)
To prevent this behaviour, pass --partscan to losetup when adding a new
partition, to clean up any lingering partitions. It seems losetup does not
accept --partscan when deleting a loop device, to clean up at that point, but
since binary_hdd mounts the partition last, there should not be any lingering
partition devices after live-build is done.
The --partscan option is available since util-linux 2.21 (released in 2012), so
it should be fairly safe to pass it unconditionally.
Lyndon Brown
Matthijs Kooijman
Kristian Klausen
Daniel Baumann
Raphaël Hertzog
Daniel Baumann
Cody A.W. Somerville
Chris Lamb
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Otavio Salvador