The os-release file was not only accessible through /usr/lib/ but
also through /usr/lib64 because "lib" was just a symlink.
Now that we split them up into two directories, add a compatibility
symlink in case /usr/lib64 was used to access os-release. A check
is added to also work without the split which is useful if the split
is not done for the SDK at the same time.
Sysext images have a compatibility matching mechanism that searches for
the matching OS version or custom sysext level setting. On Flatcar
there is just the OS version set in /etc/os-release until now which
means that sysext images can't easily be used together with autoupdates
that change the OS version.
Define a sysext level for Flatcar so that users can refer to it instead
of the OS version when they have images that don't rely on a particular
Flatcar version.
Here an example of the now possible metadata:
/etc/extensions/NAME/usr/lib64/extension-release.d/extension-release.NAME
ID=flatcar
SYSEXT_LEVEL=1.0
and a symlink /etc/extensions/NAME/usr/lib → /etc/extensions/NAME/usr/lib64
to work around the problem that using lib/ as path destroys Flatcar's
lib → lib64 symlink.
In the future the matching logic hopefully gets more flexible because
now it is just a string comparison. Also, the architecture is not
matched either for now - we should work with upstream to improve this.
Closes: https://github.com/flatcar-linux/Flatcar/issues/643
The default image group is already encoded in
/usr/share/flatcar/update.conf but it was written to
/etc/flatcar/update.conf as well. This can cause problems when the user
switches channels by forcing an update to a specific release from the
different channel (e.g., through the flatcar-update tool) as it leaves
the file under /etc/flatcar/update.conf out of sync with the new
channel version in /usr/share/flatcar/update.conf.
Since we don't really need to write a specific channel to /etc on new
images as we can rely on the value from /usr, we now leave any possible
overwriting of the value in /etc entirely to the user.
Flatcar is in the NIST CPE dictionary. Let's programmatically build the
`CPE_NAME` in the build process in order to be scanned.
`CPE_NAME` is part of `/etc/os-release` with the following manual entry:
```
CPE_NAME=
A CPE name for the operating system, in URI binding syntax, following the Common Platform Enumeration Specification[2] as proposed by the NIST.
This field is optional. Example: "CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17""
...
[^2]: Common Platform Enumeration Specification
http://scap.nist.gov/specifications/cpe/
```
Which indicates that the current version of CPE is 2.3.
Closes: https://github.com/flatcar-linux/Flatcar/issues/536
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Tortuyaux <mtortuyaux@microsoft.com>
os-release is requested in bug reports, and knowing which board
the problem occurred on is often helpful.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
This variable was semi-deprecated ages ago so `version.txt` could follow
a similar variable naming pattern to `os-release`. Finally drop usage of
it here in favor of `$COREOS_VERSION`.
We added a new https certificate on the new update service and changed
the hostname to be consistent with all of the other endpoints. Update
the new images to use this.
The old URL http://public.roller.core-os.net will remain working until
all of the old client have been updated.
- Remove custom COREOS_* attributes from /etc/lsb-release
- Move dev image logic to dev_image_util
For extra fun fix detection of local host URL for devserver.
- Remove weirdly verbose "DESCRIPTION" format.
- Add COREOS_RELEASE_BOARD back to /usr/share/coreos/release
This is mostly just so update_engine and gmerge report the correct
board name to devserver, informative-only on prod images.
- Remove version info from /etc/gentoo-release
- Switch from 'track' to 'group' terminology.
Fix the problem of: "pecified switch root path %s does not seem to be an
OS tree. /etc/os-release is missing" because dracut doesn't have an
/usr/share/coreos/os-release file.
