flatcar-tmpfiles: Always copy missing entries over to the database #26
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This pulls in flatcar/baselayout#26 to fix the regression in Alpha/Beta (itself a fix for another regression) where systemd-tmpfiles bailed if /etc/passwd|group didn't have the core user, now solved by always copying missing entries over to the databases, not only if the files didn't exist.
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This pulls in flatcar/baselayout#26 to fix the regression in Alpha/Beta (itself a fix for another regression) where systemd-tmpfiles bailed if /etc/passwd|group didn't have the core user, now solved by always copying missing entries over to the databases, not only if the files didn't exist.
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When a user or group entry is missing but the passwd/group file exists it is not added by flatcar-tmpfiles and systemd-tmpfiles will then fail because it can't resolve the user or group. We only care about the fixed set of users like "core" because those are the ones that the user will normally customize and this is also enough to fix the bug because tmpfiles.d/baselayout-home.conf is the only place where not "root" is used but another user which is "core". Always copy the missing entries (from the fixed list of entries to be copied) over to the database under /etc/, regardless if it exists or not.
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This pulls in flatcar/baselayout#26 to fix the regression in Alpha/Beta (itself a fix for another regression) where systemd-tmpfiles bailed if /etc/passwd|group didn't have the core user, now solved by always copying missing entries over to the databases, not only if the files didn't exist.
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This pulls in flatcar/baselayout#26 to fix the regression in Alpha/Beta (itself a fix for another regression) where systemd-tmpfiles bailed if /etc/passwd|group didn't have the core user, now solved by always copying missing entries over to the databases, not only if the files didn't exist.
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This pulls in flatcar/baselayout#26 to fix the regression in Alpha/Beta (itself a fix for another regression) where systemd-tmpfiles bailed if /etc/passwd|group didn't have the core user, now solved by always copying missing entries over to the databases, not only if the files didn't exist.
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This pulls in flatcar/baselayout#26 to fix the regression in Alpha/Beta (itself a fix for another regression) where systemd-tmpfiles bailed if /etc/passwd|group didn't have the core user, now solved by always copying missing entries over to the databases, not only if the files didn't exist.
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This pulls in flatcar/baselayout#26 to fix the regression in Alpha/Beta (itself a fix for another regression) where systemd-tmpfiles bailed if /etc/passwd|group didn't have the core user, now solved by always copying missing entries over to the databases, not only if the files didn't exist.
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When a user or group entry is missing but the passwd/group file exists it is not added by flatcar-tmpfiles and systemd-tmpfiles will then fail because it can't resolve the user or group. We only care about the fixed set of users like "core" because those are the ones that the user will normally customize and this is also enough to fix the bug because tmpfiles.d/baselayout-home.conf is the only place where not "root" is used but another user which is "core".
Always copy the missing entries (from the fixed list of entries to be copied) over to the database under /etc/, regardless if it exists or not.
How to use
Should be backported to Beta/Alpha to fix flatcar/Flatcar#946 (comment)
Testing done
In CI plus manually with the provided image from flatcar/Flatcar#946 through
sudo flatcar-update -P flatcar_test_update.gz -D -V 9999.9.9and also with the following test cases:coreuser with a different comment/name and rerunningcoregroup and rerunning