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libguestfs package

  1. Bug #1777058
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1777058

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Matteo Panella (mpanella) wrote : Re: virt-make-fs fails with: "libguestfs: error: tar_in: write error on directory: /:"

As stated in the upstream report, the bug is really caused by /bin/sh missing in the supermin appliance. This was fixed upstream in https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/0cca7f9061455d29a7f893e715028cd3e75c19fd and downstream in Debian in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889861

The patch applies with minimal fuzz to the version shipped in 18.04, without the aforementioned fix any libguestfs command which require interaction with a binary inside the supermin appliance fails (find, tar-*, even debug commands).