[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH installer v2] auto: allow a binary executable as the first boot executable

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Am 11.12.24 um 10:24 schrieb Daniel Kral:
> As the initial use case for the first boot feature request [0] was for
> running shell scripts, the auto installer retrieved the binary as a
> `String`. Unfortunately, this tries to interpret binary data as UTF-8
> and will transform 'invalid' characters to replacement characters [1].
> 
> This causes the auto-installer to create an invalid binary when fetching
> from an URL, and error with a `stream did not contain valid UTF-8` error
> when fetching from the ISO image.
> 
> To allow binary executables to be used as a first boot executable, this
> commit changes the fetching from being read as a `String` to being read
> as a `Vec<u8>` to not interfere with the content of the executable.
> 
> [0] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5579
> [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/alloc/string.rs.html#635
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kral <d.kral at proxmox.com>
> ---
> changes from v1:
>   - remove explicit handling of `std::io::ErrorKind::UnexpectedEof`
> 
>  .../src/bin/proxmox-auto-installer.rs          | 12 ++++++++----
>  proxmox-installer-common/src/http.rs           | 18 ++++++++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
>

applied, with Christoph's R-b and T-b, thanks!