[Error] Missing symlinks in Ubuntu installation?

[aral]

Describe the bug

On Fedora Silverblue, certain folders that are immutable are symlinked to their writable counterparts.

While an Ubuntu installation under Distrobox has some of these symlinks, it’s missing others.

One that bit me recently was the lack of a symlink from /home to /var/home. (This did let me discover hardcoded paths assuming home folders all lived in /home in my code but I digress…)

To Reproduce

1. Install Fedora Silverblue 36
2. Install an Ubuntu container
3. See a listing of / on both the base system and the container

What should happen

The symlinked folders should match (?)

What actually happens

Some symlinks are missing in the Ubuntu container.

Screenshots

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In the Ubuntu container:

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[89luca89]

Hi @aral

Looking at this the only important one missing is /var/home linked to /home, the others are not part of the "distrobox integration" so it's ok that they are not the same

I'm pushing a commit to fix this, you'll be able to grab directly from git. To make it effective just install the update, stop the container and start it again