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[Bug 904482] Re: Generate /etc/casper.conf when building a livefs instead of having casper guess the product name at boot time

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From: Mario Limonciello <superm1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:31:09 -0000
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** Also affects: casper (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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

Status in “casper” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “livecd-rootfs” package in Ubuntu:
  New

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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