Building IPFire without using loop devices

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

Hello everyone,

On the last call, some people raised that the distribution no longer builds properly when running a recent version of GNOME or a similar desktop environment. We identified that the problem is udisk2 trying to figure out what the new device is that has just been mounted, not understanding that it is inside a container and that there should be no access.

Since loop devices are not namespaces in Linux, there is no way to get around this. However, I have put some code together that generates the image without using any loop devices whatsoever:

  https://git.ipfire.org/?p=people/ms/ipfire-2.x.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/no-loop

Could the people who have been affected by this and check if this branch builds without any problems and if the generated image is also bootable in either EFI, non-EFI or both modes, please?

Feel free to hit me up with any problems or questions.

Best,
-Michael