[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#810702: Generate initiator name on install, not first boot

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hi Martin,

Thanks or the patch. One comment/question below.

On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 12:45 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Package: open-iscsi
> Version: 2.0.873+git0.3b4b4500-12
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch xenial
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In https://launchpad.net/bugs/1057635 it was reported that an
> initramfs built during install does not contain a valid iscsi
> initiator name. This is because /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi is
> currently created by the init scripts, not the postinst. Thus if d-i
> installs open-iscsi, or if you build an OS in a schroot, this will
> never happen and the built initramfs will contain only the dummy
> initiatorname.iscsi.
> 
> James Page fixed this a few years ago in Ubuntu, I adjusted the patch
> to the current Debian version.
> 
> Disclaimer: I don't know much about open-iscsi, I'm just looking into
> our delta and see what's still relevant and what would be beneficial
> to Debian too.


This must have a similar installer component too ?
Is the Ubuntu installer different than Debian's ?


-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

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