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[Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/9/20 5:31 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 02:51:45PM -0300, Guilherme Piccoli wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 1:48 PM Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Failing that, can somebody advise on whether there's an appropriate way
>>> to configure this in an image without having to maintain a fork of
>>> systemd?  The workflow here is that we consume Ubuntu cloud images and
>>> make a few small changes to them, mostly things like installing
>>> launchpad-buildd, before publishing them to Glance for use when starting
>>> new builder VMs.
>>
>> I think the cloud image folks can chime in with good ideas, but I'd
>> consider cloud-init - likely it's possible to configure it in a way to
>> apply this change on boot time. Another idea: would it be possible to
>> change launchpad-buildd to accomplish the ulimit change ?
> 
> Both of these are likely to be harder than just changing the image to
> add the appropriate bit of configuration, IMO.  cloud-init makes sense
> when you're using unmodified cloud images, but we already have a
> pipeline for modifying images for our use;
> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~canonical-sysadmins/canonical-is-charms/launchpad-buildd-image-modifier/view/head:/files/scripts/setup-ppa-buildd
> is the key bit here.  (But I'd still need to know what exactly we need
> to set there.)
> 
> I'd still like it to be fixed in bionic's systemd, even if we need to
> work around it in the short term.

just seen during a groovy test rebuild:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1897461