I noticed that if I lxc-create with the download template and select Debian buster/bullseye amd64, the resulting containers are no-merged-usr. Is this intentional? I thought the prepared images were using debootstrap and minbase which is supposed to result in a merged-usr. Anyone else seeing this?
This is not intentional. The output from distrobuilder also shows that it’s merged. However, I’m seeing the same issue as @lxcusr5678 in the container.
I’ll need to investigate this further.
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No idea, we don’t do any repacking from what we extract from the Jenkins job…
Actually, this is a problem with our build container.
When I first tested this, I used a build container based on Ubuntu Impish. There, it worked fine. What we (and Jenkins) use is actually an container based on Ubuntu Bionic. This creates the incorrect rootfs. I now need to check what exactly the issue is.
Found the issue.
Our bionic-based build container uses debootstrap version 1.0.95ubuntu0.9. Merged /usr is disabled by default in this version.
Newer versions of debootstrap have merged /usr enabled by default.
What I think we’ll be doing is enable it for the distros/releases which have switched to it. This will probably exclude some older releases.
Nice find and fix. Thanks all.