/etc/update-motd.d/51-cloudguest is wrong

[Steve Langasek]

[SRU Justification]
livecd-rootfs creates an /etc/update-motd.d/51-cloudguest in all cloud images that injects wrong information into the motd about Ubuntu Advantage that is not consistent with current product offerings.

This file should just be dropped from all cloud images going forward, and we should avoid adding such things in the future in livecd-rootfs sauce.

This should be done before the last cloud images are rolled for 14.04 prior to trusty entering ESM.

[Regression potential]
Nothing should depend on this file's presence in the cloud images.

[Test case]
Verify that images still build with this change.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Fixed in livecd-rootfs 2.525.20 for bionic.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Steve, or anyone else affected,

Accepted livecd-rootfs into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/livecd-rootfs/2.208.17 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-trusty to verification-done-trusty. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-trusty. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Steve, or anyone else affected,

Accepted livecd-rootfs into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/livecd-rootfs/2.408.45 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

https://launchpad.net/~canonical-foundations/+livefs/ubuntu/xenial/ubuntu-cpc/+build/164716 is a successful image build using the livecd-rootfs from xenial-proposed and the ubuntu-cpc project, which exercises the code path changed in this SRU.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

https://launchpad.net/~canonical-foundations/+livefs/ubuntu/trusty/ubuntu-cpc/+build/164730 is an image build using the livecd-rootfs from trusty-proposed. It fails to build, with an error unrelated to the SRU in question and which is a preexisting failure (as seen at https://launchpad.net/~canonical-foundations/+livefs/ubuntu/trusty/ubuntu-cpc/+build/164732, a build without trusty-proposed enabled). The failure also happens at a point in the build past the point in the code that has been changed by the SRU (the failure is during a binary hook, the SRU change is to a chroot hook, all chroot hooks are executed before all binary hooks).

So I am considering this verification-done despite the build failure.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for livecd-rootfs has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package livecd-rootfs - 2.408.45

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livecd-rootfs (2.408.45) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Drop /etc/update-motd.d/51-cloudguest from cloud images; this is not
    consistent with current Ubuntu Advantage product language. Any future
    customizations to update-motd for cloud images should be done via a
    package instead. LP: #1823776.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:11:57 -0700

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package livecd-rootfs - 2.208.17

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livecd-rootfs (2.208.17) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Drop /etc/update-motd.d/51-cloudguest from cloud images; this is not
    consistent with current Ubuntu Advantage product language. Any future
    customizations to update-motd for cloud images should be done via a
    package instead. LP: #1823776.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Tue, 19 Mar 2019 22:23:21 -0700