From: Deniz Adrian <deniz@adrianer.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:04:53 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: ensure builds with cache over device boundaries
X-Git-Tag: v26~171
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ec4475a84699ec639dfa5c4e75fdc4c9291d90ad;p=thirdparty%2Fmkosi.git

ensure builds with cache over device boundaries

when running mkosi with the default cache dir/XDG_CACHE_HOME on a
different device than the mkosi working directory, mkosi falls back to
trying to copy the cache using `copy_tree` from tree.py.

the cache contains symlinks which are pointing to files on the host:

e.g. `mkosi.cache/debian...cache/usr/bin/mt -> /etc/alternatives/mt`

`os.listxattr()` defaults to `follow_symlinks=True`, which leads to
`FileNotFoundError`s if the files don't exist on the host, which stops
the build.

this patch ignores symlinks, but feels like a workaround, as our
assumption would be that such absolute links should not be traversed
outside the chroot in the first place.

Co-authored-by: ZauberNerd <zaubernerd@zaubernerd.de>
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diff --git a/mkosi/tree.py b/mkosi/tree.py
index 2090db8ed..f90ed8ca9 100644
--- a/mkosi/tree.py
+++ b/mkosi/tree.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def maybe_make_nocow(path: Path) -> None:
 
 
 def tree_has_selinux_xattr(path: Path) -> bool:
-    return any("security.selinux" in os.listxattr(p) for p in (path, *path.rglob("*")))
+    return any("security.selinux" in os.listxattr(p, follow_symlinks=False) for p in (path, *path.rglob("*")))
 
 
 def copy_tree(