The commands useradd/usermod will silently skip adding users to
secondary groups that are not in /etc/group. The idea being that the
tools should not create groups that conflict with existing LDAP/NIS
groups but why trying to do so isn't a fatal error I don't know.
Overall the code is rather complicated and tries to modify instead of
add when possible to allow running the SDK as the 'core' user. To keep
things simple gut this code, make the 'core' user special, and add
secondary groups via the 'gpasswd' command so that errors are reported
instead of silently ignored.
One functional change: the default groups have changed to kvm and
portage. The old list excluded kvm and included lots of extra cruft.
Now with SYSLINUX 6 we can use the same bootloader on EFI and BIOS
systems. This replaces our previous reliance on building default kernel
options into the kernel image itself.
- 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.
cgpt now supports generating hybrid MBRs and the classic style mbr.bin
from any version of SYSLINUX should work the same with the hybrid MBR.
The other code, gptmbr.bin, changes after SYSLINUX 3. Switching lets me
play with different versions of SYSLINUX without breaking everything.
With this change all images feature a hybrid MBR so the special case for
some VM platforms has been removed.
This doesn't make things go faster and I am suspicious that it makes
things worse. For example /etc/xml/catalog winds up empty from time to
time and I wonder if this locking is related to that.
While attempting to fix the easy to mix up DIGESTS names in feb59db9f I
stumbled across yet another way that the DIGESTS names were a bit
unpredictable: previously a .bz2 got stuck into the file name when
upload_images automatically compressed some file types. The new code
missed this and never added the .bz2. Correct this now, both for
image_to_vm which has a pile of glue to keep the legacy names in place
for now and build_image which I never intended to change.
