[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/fail2ban: fix fail2ban-python symlink
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Thu Oct 8 20:13:44 UTC 2020
On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 07:58:08 +0200
Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> wrote:
> Fixes (reproducible):
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/50f/50f199bfe06d054cc6770760e73ac0de594a0670/diffoscope-results.txt
>
> Fail2ban installs the fail2ban-python symlink pointing to the host python
> intepreter used to run setup.py, which is naturally not valid at runtime and
> breaks the reproducible tests as shown in the diffoscope results:
>
> │ -lrwxrwxrwx 0 0 0 0 2020-10-04 10:50:38.000000 ./usr/bin/fail2ban-python -> /home/naourr/work/instance-0/output-1/host/bin/python
> │ +lrwxrwxrwx 0 0 0 0 2020-10-04 10:50:38.000000 ./usr/bin/fail2ban-python -> /home/naourr/work/instance-0/output-2/host/bin/python
>
> As a workaround, update the symlink after installation to point to the
> correct target python.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
> ---
> package/fail2ban/fail2ban.mk | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
It would have been nicer to have something supported by upstream
fail2ban. I guess like me you looked at the setup.py logic, and
realized that it was too convoluted to find a reasonably simple fix?
So applied to master. Thanks!
Thomas
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