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#1 2020-09-25 19:40:44

G3ro
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Registered: 2020-09-24
Posts: 33

[SOLVED] shiftfs dkms package

Hello,

I would like to contribute a package on AUR for a kernel module named "shiftfs".

shiftfs is a kernel filesystem that provides uid/gid shifting, which is used in software like LXD.
More information can be found here:
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/t … iftfs/5155

shiftfs is considered stable (link to comment), enabled by default in the Ubuntu kernel and maintained by experienced kernel maintainers.

I have a few questions/problems that I would like to discuss here, before I submit files to AUR.

You can find my draft here:
https://github.com/toby63/shiftfs-dkms/tree/aur

1. checksums:
The pkgbuild downloads the shiftfs.c-file from the Ubuntu Kernel repo (which is the most recent repo to take it from; the maintainers also work for ubuntu):
https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kerne … /shiftfs.c

Now I am stuck finding a good method for adding a checksum or disabling checksums.
Sry I have no experience in this, so I ask for help.

2. version:
Officially there are no versions, so right now I use my own versioning scheme:
pkgver=1.3

An alternative would be to use the date from the last update presented in the log:
https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kerne … /shiftfs.c

What would you recommend?

3. url:
There is also no real official url, so there are the following options:
a) The Ubuntu kernel repo: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kerne … /shiftfs.c
b) LXD Forum post (nearest to an official description): https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/t … iftfs/5155
c) Initial Bug report on Ubuntu about implementing shiftfs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … ug/1823186
d) my Github repo, which describes the details, but is of course completely unofficial as I am not the maintainer of the kernel module:
https://github.com/toby63/shiftfs-dkms/
e) I could ask the maintainers whether they would set up something more official.

What would you recommend?

4. Different versions:
As you can see the PKGBUILD file right now includes two packages, I assume I should seperate these into two different AUR packages, correct?

Thx in advance.

Greetings,
G3ro

Last edited by G3ro (2020-09-29 20:29:23)

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#2 2020-09-25 20:19:32

loqs
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Registered: 2014-03-06
Posts: 17,194

Re: [SOLVED] shiftfs dkms package

It did not work for me in a clean chroot with a custom kernel outside the chroot due to the use of uname -r.
The following changes allowed it to build for the linux package as listed in the dependencies:
Allow KDIR specified in the Makefile to be overriden see https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ … dules.html
Drop the custom Make rule in dkms.conf as the default rule passes in KERNVER.

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8645be2..59ad447 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ modname := shiftfs
 obj-m := $(modname).o
 
 KVERSION := $(shell uname -r)
-KDIR := /lib/modules/$(KVERSION)/build
+KDIR ?= /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
 PWD := "$$(pwd)"
 
 ifdef DEBUG
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index d97bade..f1a6bd6 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -11,10 +11,12 @@ makedepends=('linux-headers')
 source=("https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/groovy/plain/fs/shiftfs.c"
 dkms.conf
 Makefile)
-sha512sums=('SKIP')
+sha512sums=('SKIP'
+            '186a0d0bb6f85db978636a9e8471865542aae8f2170b3d4bdd35952c9eaa73a055acb2d4bea6b5c62ca7732d3c5fb478a267f1f5d78b50a4ac3e095ba689833f'
+            '564fa7777089f16ca1522b1893d0e77ce34cd2b3632ff807c4a932eb29559053ad04a3d6a083c2b34e50864d72f6707c96a951aafca663fa67d483af04bcf0e9')
 
 build() {
-  make
+  make KDIR="/usr/lib/modules/$(</usr/src/linux/version)/build"
 }
 
 package_shiftfs() {
diff --git a/dkms.conf b/dkms.conf
index de08f93..8b6d92d 100644
--- a/dkms.conf
+++ b/dkms.conf
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 PACKAGE_NAME="shiftfs"
 PACKAGE_VERSION="1.3"
-MAKE[0]="make KVERSION=$kernelver"
 CLEAN="make clean"
 BUILT_MODULE_NAME[0]="shiftfs"
 DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]="/kernel/fs/"

Last edited by loqs (2020-09-25 20:19:46)

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#3 2020-09-26 13:32:38

G3ro
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Registered: 2020-09-24
Posts: 33

Re: [SOLVED] shiftfs dkms package

@loqs: Thx for the suggestions, I added the changes to the repo.

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#4 2020-09-29 20:27:42

G3ro
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Registered: 2020-09-24
Posts: 33

Re: [SOLVED] shiftfs dkms package

I created two packages for shiftfs:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=shiftfs

To give some answers to my own questions:

1. checksums:
It seems there are no checksums for single files in a git-repo.
Thus we skip the checksum.

2. version:
I decided to use a date format for versioning.

3. url:
I kept the url of the ubuntu repo, because that is the original source of the module after all.
I added additional links in a pinned comment.

4. different versions:
I seperated the packages, because obviously you should install only one of the packages anyway.
This should now also work for custom kernels and AUR helpers which automatically install packages.

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