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ashish

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NanoBSD images should retain file flags set by the installation process (such as the schg flag on /var/empty) to match a standard FreeBSD installation. Unconditionally stripping system flags with chflags -R noschg after installworld removes these expected security flags.

clean_world() already takes care of clearing noschg when wiping NANO_WORLDDIR and NANO_OBJ during clean builds.

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senguptaangshuman17_gmail.com created this revision.Aug 19 2026, 10:19 AM

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I would recommend squashing the majority of this commit with D58931, as the changes are mostly NFC (the leftovers).

tools/tools/nanobsd/defaults.sh
965	This is a "functional" change and should be submitted separately.

senguptaangshuman17_gmail.com updated this revision to Diff 184457.Aug 20 2026, 10:10 AM

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Isolate functional change (disable chflags in install_world) and normalize comments

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Commit message needs a why.

senguptaangshuman17_gmail.com updated this revision to Diff 184967.Aug 25 2026, 6:11 AM

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senguptaangshuman17_gmail.com retitled this revision from nanobsd: Disable chflags call in install_world() to nanobsd: Remove chflags call in install_world().Aug 25 2026, 6:13 AM

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Rebase stack on top of D59043 update

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While I do agree with the change, I do not fully agree with the commit message.
For me, the reason we want to remove this step is because we want to ship a NanoBSD image with the flags set just like a normal FreeBSD installation (/var/empty for instance).

In D58957#1357961, @jlduran wrote:

While I do agree with the change, I do not fully agree with the commit message.
For me, the reason we want to remove this step is because we want to ship a NanoBSD image with the flags set just like a normal FreeBSD installation (/var/empty for instance).

will this work?

nanobsd: Remove chflags call in install_world()
     
NanoBSD images should retain file flags set by the installation process
(such as the schg flag on /var/empty) to match a standard FreeBSD
installation. Unconditionally stripping system flags with chflags -R noschg
after installworld removes these expected security flags.
    
clean_world() already takes care of clearing noschg when wiping
NANO_WORLDDIR and NANO_OBJ during clean builds.
     
Sponsored by:   Google LLC (GSoC 2026)
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58957

In D58957#1357973, @senguptaangshuman17_gmail.com wrote:
In D58957#1357961, @jlduran wrote:

While I do agree with the change, I do not fully agree with the commit message.
For me, the reason we want to remove this step is because we want to ship a NanoBSD image with the flags set just like a normal FreeBSD installation (/var/empty for instance).

will this work?
nanobsd: Remove chflags call in install_world()
     
NanoBSD images should retain file flags set by the installation process
(such as the schg flag on /var/empty) to match a standard FreeBSD
installation. Unconditionally stripping system flags with chflags -R noschg
after installworld removes these expected security flags.
    
clean_world() already takes care of clearing noschg when wiping
NANO_WORLDDIR and NANO_OBJ during clean builds.
     
Sponsored by:   Google LLC (GSoC 2026)
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58957