Bug 1201507

Summary:	fuse missing from BuildRequires
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Anssi Johansson <rhbugs>
Component:	libguestfs	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.1	CC:	huzhan, leiwang, ptoscano, riehecky, tis, toracat, wshi
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	libguestfs-1.28.1-1.25.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-11-19 07:00:15 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Anssi Johansson 2015-03-12 20:38:14 UTC

Description of problem:
libguestfs fails to build if fuse with its fusermount binary is not installed. There is already a BuildRequires of fuse-devel and a Requires of fuse, but fuse should also be listed as a BuildRequires. The build fails due to a number of tests requiring fusermount to function properly. The tests are not simply skipped if fusermount is not present, but instead, the tests fail.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.28.1-1.18

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ensure fuse is not installed
2. rpmbuild --define %_topdir /builddir/libguestfs -ba SPECS/libguestfs.spe

Actual results:
These tests fail:
FAIL: test-xattrs-fuse.sh
FAIL: test-parallel-mount-local
FAIL: test-mount-local.sh
FAIL: test-virt-sysprep-script.sh
FAIL: test-fuse
FAIL: test-fuse-umount-race.sh
FAIL: test-guestmount-fd

The error message in each is similar to:
libguestfs: guestfs__mount_local: fuse_mount /tmp/lieYxhyH9K
fuse: failed to exec fusermount: No such file or directory
libguestfs: trace: mount_local = -1 (error)

Expected results:
The tests should pass or get skipped. fuse's installation should be enforced by having it as a BuildRequires.

Additional info:
Installing fuse prior to building the package makes the tests pass.

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2015-03-12 20:46:15 UTC

It seems like a few things conspire here:

(1) On RHEL builders, /dev/fuse is not available, so fuse tests are
skipped.  This would be different if building using rpmbuild.

(2) On Fedora, we BuildRequire zfs-fuse which pulls in fuse.  On RHEL
we don't have zfs-fuse.

Anyway, it does appear to be a bug in both RHEL and Fedora.  I have
fixed it in Fedora.

Comment 3 Hu Zhang 2015-10-20 07:34:07 UTC

Verified with the packages:
libguestfs-1.28.1-1.55.el7.x86_64

Verify steps:
1. remove the fuse package
# yum remove fuse

2. build the libguestfs
# rpmbuild --define '%_topdir /root/rpmbuild' -ba /root/rpmbuild/SPECS/libguestfs.spec
error: Failed build dependencies:
        fuse is needed by libguestfs-1:1.28.1-1.55.el7.x86_64

On RHEL7.2, fuse is needed when rpmbuild libguestfs.
So verified.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 07:00:15 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2183.html