libc 2.31/i686: operation not permitted for preserving timestamps

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On 4/3/20 9:47 PM, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> On 03/04/2020 20:09, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
>> is this fix for this problem?
>>
>> -
>> https://github.com/pld-linux/util-linux/commit/67a912cd50464cae095fbdb7b3cf90daf495fb90
>>
>>
>> -
>> http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-devel-en/2020-March/025883.html
> No.
>
> Do you use systemd-nspawn for starting something and running cp inside?
>
> Is that cp test on vm/bare metal + kernel + just userspace directly?
>
it's inside docker, as noted in earlier post:

- 
http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-devel-en/2020-March/025887.html

- here's full build log attemting to  build base image:


https://gitlab.com/pld-linux/pld/-/jobs/480110124


the reproducer is pretty straight forward, and i don't think it matters 
what is the host kernel. it fails in that cloud and fails in docker for 
mac (O)


```

$ docker run --rm -it 
registry.gitlab.com/pld-linux/pld/i686 at sha256:832f004cc28798aafd758a7e6aa867681f1f860ac22b341dc8a2183a75a53e36 
bash



[root at 6aff3df5fe9a /]# uname -a

Linux 6aff3df5fe9a 4.19.76-linuxkit #1 SMP Thu Oct 17 19:31:58 UTC 2019 
x86_64 Intel(R)_Core(TM)_i7-7700HQ_CPU_ at _2.80GHz PLD Linux

[root at 6aff3df5fe9a /]# rpm -q glibcglibc-2.30-3.i686

[root at 6aff3df5fe9a /]# cp -a /var/lib/rpm/ /tmp/rpm1
[root at 6aff3df5fe9a /]# poldek --up -u glibc-2.31-5.i686 --noask
th::packages.ndir.gz [16.6M (8.1M/s)]
th::packages.ndir.dscr.gz [2.2M (2.2M/s)]
th::packages.ndir.gz [16.3M (7.7M/s)]
th::packages.ndir.dscr.gz [1.1M (1.1M/s)]
Loading [pndir]th...
Loading [pndir]th...
28925 packages read
Processing dependencies...
glibc-2.30-3.i686 obsoleted by glibc-2.31-5.i686
glibc-2.31-5.i686 marks glibc-ld-2.31-5.i686 (cap glibc-ld = 6:2.31-5)
  glibc-ld-2.30-3.i686 obsoleted by glibc-ld-2.31-5.i686
There are 2 packages to install (1 marked by dependencies), 2 to remove:
U glibc-(2.30-3 => 2.31-5).i686  glibc-ld-(2.30-3 => 2.31-5).i686
This operation will use 138.5KB of disk space.
Need to get 3.2MB of archives (3.2MB to download).

[1/2] th::glibc-ld-2.31-5.i686.rpm [401.1K (401.1K/s)]
[2/2] th::glibc-2.31-5.i686.rpm [2.8M (1.8M/s)]
Executing pm-command.sh --upgrade -vh --root / --define 
_check_dirname_deps 1...
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
    1:glibc-ld ########################################### [ 50%]
    2:glibc ########################################### [100%]
[root at 6aff3df5fe9a /]# cp -a /var/lib/rpm/ /tmp/rpm2
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/__db.001': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/__db.002': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/__db.003': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/__db.004': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/__db.005': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/__db.006': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Arch': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Basenames': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Conflictname': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/DB_CONFIG': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Dirnames': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Filedigests': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Filepaths': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Group': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Installtid': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Name': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Nvra': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Obsoletename': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Os': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Packagecolor': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Packages': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Providename': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Pubkeys': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Release': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Requirename': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Seqno': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Sha1header': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Sigmd5': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Sourcepkgid': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Triggername': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/Version': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/log/log.0000000001': Operation not 
permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/log': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2/tmp': Operation not permitted
cp: preserving times for '/tmp/rpm2': Operation not permitted
[root at 6aff3df5fe9a /]#

...

```

note:

registry.gitlab.com/pld-linux/pld/i686 at sha256:832f004cc28798aafd758a7e6aa867681f1f860ac22b341dc8a2183a75a53e36

is current alias for registry.gitlab.com/pld-linux/pld/i686:latest