This stage takes /usr/lib/passwd and /usr/etc/passwd from an OSTree
checkout, merges them into one file, and store it as /etc/passwd in the
buildroot.
It does the same for /etc/group.
The reason for doing this is that there is an issue with unstable UIDs
and GIDs when creating OSTree commits from scratch. When there is a
package that creates a system user or a system group, it can change the
UID and GID of users and groups that are created later.
This is not a problem in traditional deployments because already created
users and groups never change their UIDs and GIDs, but with OSTree we
recreate the files from scratch and then replace the previous one so it
can actually change.
By copying the files to the build root before doing any other
operations, we can make sure that the UIDs and GIDs of already existing
users and groups won't change.
Co-author: Christian Kellner <christian@kellner.me>
Add a simple helper method that returns the path for a deployment,
given the sysroot, the osname, the reference or commit and the
deployment serial. Path might not exist.
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In python 3.6 the value of `__origin__` for typing.List[str] is
typing.List. This then changed to the actual `list` type in later
versions. Accept both versions.
Add the initramfs-args Treefile option that can be used to pass
arguments to drauct via rpm-ostree. NB: the ostree module will
always be automatically be included by rpm-ostree.
When using rpm-ostree compose, a Treefile[1] controls various
aspects of its behaviour. Since rpm-ostree will, at least in
the beginning, be used to post-process and committing the tree
add a helper class to ease the creation of correct Treefiles.
The docstring of the Treefile contains the information in which
phases ('install', 'postprocess', 'commit') the option is used,
as of rpm-ostree commit 1cf0d557ae8059e689b1fed670022727e9842288
Add basic checks for the ostree.Treefile helper. Some of the
tests require rpm-ostree to be installed.
[1] https://rpm-ostree.readthedocs.io/en/stable/manual/treefile/
