rootfs contains config and metadata from the kernel used when bootstraping the rootfs

Bug #1468469 reported by Ricardo Salveti
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Snappy
Status tracked in Trunk
15.04
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned
Trunk
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned

Bug Description

This with both 15.04 and rolling:

$ sudo find | grep 3.19.0-18
./system/usr/share/doc/linux-image-extra-3.19.0-18-generic
./system/usr/share/doc/linux-image-extra-3.19.0-18-generic/changelog.Debian.gz
./system/usr/share/doc/linux-image-extra-3.19.0-18-generic/copyright.gz
./system/usr/share/doc/linux-image-3.19.0-18-generic
./system/usr/share/doc/linux-image-3.19.0-18-generic/copyright.gz
./system/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.19.0-18-generic.postrm
./system/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-extra-3.19.0-18-generic.postrm
./system/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-extra-3.19.0-18-generic.postinst
./system/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.19.0-18-generic.preinst
./system/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.19.0-18-generic.list
./system/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.19.0-18-generic.postinst
./system/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.19.0-18-generic.md5sums
./system/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-extra-3.19.0-18-generic.list
./system/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.19.0-18-generic.prerm
./system/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-extra-3.19.0-18-generic.md5sums
./system/var/lib/initramfs-tools/3.19.0-18-generic
./system/lib/modprobe.d/blacklist_linux_3.19.0-18-generic.conf
./system/boot/config-3.19.0-18-generic

The config can be quite confusing, since it can give the idea that this is the config used for the running kernel, which is not true :-)

Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Setting to critical because its a) confusing b) easy to fix in the livecd-rootfs code.

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