Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] #11662 - wic should mount /boot

[Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>]

On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 15:23 +0300, Ed Bartosh wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:02:13AM +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 11:37 +0300, Ed Bartosh wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure I understand this. If you don't want fstab to be
> > > changed
> > > > you should not specify mount points in .wks
> > > > There is only one reason to have mount points in .wks: to make wic
> > > to
> > > > change /etc/fstab, which you apparently don't want. So, don't
> > > specify
> > > > mount points and you'll have what you want.
> > > > 
> > > > Having additional option for this looks redundand to me.
> > > 
> > > After thinking a bit more about it I'd propose to have global wic
> > > option
> > > to avoid rootfs content changes. Not just fstab updates, but any
> > > changes. For now this option (--no-rootfs-update ?) should prevent
> > > creating
> > > images if either mount points are specified or --exclude-path is used
> > > in .wks
> > 
> > Why does --exclude-path conflict with --no-rootfs-update? Is that a
> > conceptual problem or an implementation problem?
> >
> 
> I thought that removing directories from original rootfs is a
> modification.

But it's not actually removed from the original roofs directory, right?
For me, "not modified" refers to that and the files in it.

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