Bug#767448: No way to override settings from /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/*

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#767448: No way to override settings from /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/*
Date	2015-12-11 03:50 +0100
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 06:17:46 +0100 Piotr Jurkiewicz <piotr.jerzy.jurkiewicz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> 
> There is no way for user to override settings from 
> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d.
> 
> For example, dropbear package in file /usr/.../conf-hooks.d/dropbear 
> sets UMASK variable to 0077. User cannot override this with his own 
> setting in /etc.
> 
> The only way to do that is to edit /usr/.../conf-hooks.d/dropbear file 
> directly and change UMASK. However, such change will be of course 
> overwritten on a next update of dropbear package.

Actually, you can use dpkg-divert to rename this file to somewhere else
that initramfs-tools will ignore it.  dpkg will follow that renaming so
it won't undo your change.

> In my opinion, user-provided settings from /etc/* should have priority 
> over package-provided settings form /usr/*.

This is a tricky one.  Some packages really do need to override
initramfs.conf, to enable features they depend on.  I agree we need to
come up with a better approach for controlling the UMASK variable.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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Bug#767448: No way to override settings from /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/* Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2015-12-11 03:50 +0100
  Bug#767448: No way to override settings from /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/* Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-25 18:40 +0100
    Bug#767448: No way to override settings from /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/* Piotr Jurkiewicz <piotr.jerzy.jurkiewicz@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 05:20 +0100
      Bug#767448: No way to override settings from /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/* Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-04-17 03:00 +0200
        Processed: Re: No way to override settings from /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d/* owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2016-04-17 03:00 +0200

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