Ubuntu
casper package

Generate /etc/casper.conf when building a livefs instead of having casper guess the product name at boot time

Bug #904482 reported by Stéphane Graber
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casper (Ubuntu)
Triaged
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livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

Today's casper (1.295) now uses the product name as the username and hostname, instead of the hardcoded "ubuntu" we used to have everywhere.

It's doing that by parsing .disk/info at boot time and changing its environment to what it finds in there.
This works fine except that it's then non-trivial for something running in the live environment to know what hostname and username ended up using (well, hostname is pretty easy :)).

Instead, it'd be better to have /etc/casper.conf in the livefs contain the right HOST and USERNAME, these will then be used by casper (deprecating the code I added today) and by software running in the live environment like ubiquity (through its ubiquity.casper module).

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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote :

I've added a temporary workaround for casper that makes the changes in the casper.conf in the initrd (as well as livefs) until this can be fixed directly in livecd-rootfs.

This will unbreak any applications that were parsing casper.conf to find the proper values to be using for now.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package casper - 1.298

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casper (1.298) precise; urgency=low

  * Write out a new casper.conf with derivative values if they've been changed.
    - Fixes applications that parse /etc/casper.conf from breaking.
    - This can be reverted after the livecd-rootfs task from LP: #904482 is
      fixed.
 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:30:47 -0600

Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Mario Limonciello (superm1)
Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → New
Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

Will there be a way to override using the product name as username? For example, elementary OS uses "me" as live CD username.

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