Remove stale archivemount support

mbuto has two ways of building the initramfs.  One is the typical approach
of staging its contents in a temporary directory, then building the
initramfs with cpio.  The other is to create an empty initramfs, mount
it with archivemount, and copy things into the mounted archive.

However, the archivemount approach is broken.  I'm not entirely sure why,
but it appears not to properly unmount the archive and retrieve the final.
filled version.  The upshot is that if archivemount is installed, then
mbuto generates an empty, gzip-compressed initramfs instead of whatever it
was supposed to.

It appears the archivemount approach was there to allow some later changes
to the archive without re-running mbuto.  However, it's essentially
impossible to use this safely - if archivemount still has the archive open
for writing, it's not safe to read it concurrently.  This appears to have
worked by accident with some earlier versions, but doesn't work now.

Just remove the archivemount approach entirely.

Reported-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 36 deletions

diff --git a/mbuto b/mbuto
index a6f80ab..49d032c 100755
--- a/mbuto
+++ b/mbuto
@@ -368,7 +368,6 @@ cmd_check() {
 
 # cleanup() - Remove left-overs on exit, used from trap
 cleanup() {
-	[ -n "${ARCHIVEMOUNT}" ] && "${UMOUNT}" "${wd}" 2>/dev/null
 	"${RM}" -rf "${wd}"
 	[ -n "${pkg_tmp}" ] && "${RM}" -f "${pkg_tmp}"
 	[ -n "${compress_test1}" ] && "${RM}" -f "${compress_test1}"
@@ -564,16 +563,6 @@ cpio_init() {
 		else
 			OUT="$("${REALPATH}" "${OUT}")"
 		fi
-
-		if [ -n "${ARCHIVEMOUNT}" ]; then
-			: | "${CPIO}" --create -H newc --quiet | \
-				"${GZIP}" > "${OUT}"
-		fi
-	fi
-
-	if [ -n "${ARCHIVEMOUNT}" ]; then
-		"${ARCHIVEMOUNT}" "${OUT}" "${wd}"
-		info "Mounted CPIO archive ${OUT} at ${wd}"
 	fi
 }
 
@@ -1099,26 +1088,17 @@ cmds() {
 
 	[ "${NOSTRIP}" != "y" ] && strip_all
 
-	if [ -z "${ARCHIVEMOUNT}" ]; then
-		( __out="$("${REALPATH}" "${OUT}")"
-		  "${CD}" "${wd}"
-		  "${FIND}" . | "${CPIO}" --create -H newc --quiet > "${OUT}"
-		  cpio_compress "${__out}"
-		)
-	else
-		"${SYNC}"
-	fi
+	( __out="$("${REALPATH}" "${OUT}")"
+		"${CD}" "${wd}"
+		"${FIND}" . | "${CPIO}" --create -H newc --quiet > "${OUT}"
+		cpio_compress "${__out}"
+	)
 
 	stats
 
 	printf "%s" "${OUTPUT}"						| \
 		sed 's,__INITRD__,'"$("${REALPATH}" "${OUT}")"',g'	| \
 		sed 's,__KERNEL__,/boot/vmlinuz-'"${KERNEL}"',g'
-
-	if [ -n "${ARCHIVEMOUNT}" ]; then
-		trap - EXIT
-		notice "initramfs mounted at: ${wd}"
-	fi
 }
 
 # usage() - Print usage and exit
@@ -1271,17 +1251,6 @@ else
 	eval "profile_${PROFILE}" || err "profile ${PROFILE} not found"
 fi
 
-# Check if we can keep the CPIO mounted for convenience as we exit. This isn't
-# safe with fakeroot, as contents can't be touched before the environment
-# save-file is loaded again, so it needs root (and archivemount).
-if [ "${LD_PRELOAD}" = "libfakeroot-sysv.so" ]; then
-	if command -v archivemount >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-		notice "Not running as root, won't keep cpio mounted"
-	fi
-elif ! ARCHIVEMOUNT="$(command -v archivemount)"; then
-	warn "archivemount not available, won't keep cpio mounted"
-fi
-
 trap cleanup EXIT
 
 cmds "$@"