Some configuration files that need updates are directly under in /etc. To
update them atomically, we need write access to /etc. For Ubuntu Core this is
an issue as /etc is not writable. Only a selection of subdirectories can be
writable. The general solution is symlinks or bind mounts to writable places.
But for atomic writes in /etc, that does not work. So Ubuntu has had a patch
for that that did not age well.
Instead we would like to introduce some environment variables for alternate
paths.
* SYSTEMD_ETC_HOSTNAME: /etc/hostname
* SYSTEMD_ETC_MACHINE_INFO: /etc/machine-info
* SYSTEMD_ETC_LOCALTIME: /etc/localtime
* SYSTEMD_ETC_LOCALE_CONF: /etc/locale.conf
* SYSTEMD_ETC_VCONSOLE_CONF: /etc/vconsole.conf
* SYSTEMD_ETC_ADJTIME: /etc/adjtime
While it is for now expected that there is a symlink from the standard, we
still try to read them from that alternate path. This is important for
`/etc/localtime`, which is a symlink, so we cannot have an indirect symlink or
bind mount for it.
Since machine-id is typically written only once and not updated. This commit
does not cover it. An initrd can properly create it and bind mount it.
When the user/customer sets the time on the system which is prior
than that of the systemd build time, as systemd doesn't allow time
before it's build date after a reboot, systemd is resetting it but
there is no error or exception present in the setTime method due
to which user/customer is unaware of why the time is reset back to
the systemd-build time.
Added a condition check in the set_time() method to return an
error when tried to set time past the systemd build date.
Tested: Verified that it throws an error when we try to set the
time prior to systemd build date.
Change-Id: Ia6b58320bdb7234a21885a44af8fd3bda64c3789
Having these named differently than the test itself mostly creates
unecessary confusion and makes writing logic against the tests harder
so let's rename the testsuite-xx units and scripts to just use the
test name itself.
Valentin David
Pavithra Barithaya
Daan De Meyer