[Libguestfs] ATTN packagers: Fix to supermin is required for Linux kernel >= 4.13

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Jul 13 10:51:05 UTC 2017


A fix to supermin is required if you want to use supermin and/or
libguestfs with Linux kernel >= 4.13.  It does not affect the recently
released kernel 4.12.

Supermin incorrectly created symlinks in the appliance filesystem, and
although this works with earlier kernels a recent change breaks these
(incorrect) filesystems.

The symptoms you will see are described in this bug report:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1470157

The fix is included in supermin 5.1.18:

  http://download.libguestfs.org/supermin/

If you prefer to backport the commit which is fairly small and
well-contained, it is:

  https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/commit/158854e3ba4be7f6b8d81f662ddad98358ede1de

There is no need to upgrade libguestfs.

Rich.

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