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livecd-rootfs package

livecd-rootfs: config/hooks/00-uid-gid-fix.chroot_early failed

Bug #1515400 reported by Tim Gardner on 2015-11-11

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	Xenial	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Using a Wily amd64 host:

#!/bin/sh
export PROJECT=ubuntu-core
export BOOTLOADER=grub
export ARCH=amd64
export SUBPROJECT=system-image
export IMAGEFORMAT=ext4
export SUITE=xenial
/usr/share/livecd-rootfs/live-build/auto/config
mkdir -p config/hooks
sudo /usr/share/livecd-rootfs/live-build/auto/build

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Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) wrote on 2015-11-11:

Build log Edit (30.7 KiB, text/plain)

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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote on 2015-11-12:

this is on purpose. on readonly rootfs setups like snappy we want to catch changes to /etc/passwd, else you get a UID/GID mess on upgrades (file permissions etc) the hook above explicitly makes sure that you update the livecd-rootfs shipped password database.

Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu Xenial):
status:	New → Won't Fix

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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote on 2015-11-12:

PS: make sure to always use the latest livecd-rootfs version for your specific release when building

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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote on 2015-11-12:

PPS: for just rolling a device tarball i'd instead suggest to ship your own script snippet based on line 344..479 from http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/livecd-rootfs/trunk/view/head:/live-build/auto/build else your build will always try to produce a complete set of rootfs tarballs alongside, which you dont want ...