Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When invoking elemental init, any existing feature config file on the system will be overwritten.
For example:
COPY my/custom/04_accounting.yaml /system/oem/04_accounting.yaml
RUN elemental init --force cloud-config-defaults
The 04_accounting.yaml coming with the cloud-config-defaults feature will overwrite the custom one I copied before.
There is no clear indication of the overwriting, so this is prone to mistakes when customizing a derivative image.
Describe the solution you'd like
I would like a warning to highlight which files are going to be overwritten.
Ideally I would like elemental init and my image build to fail due to file conflicts, rather than just emitting a warning.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Simply copying the custom file after running elemental init solves the problem.
The only trouble I have with this is that it's a bit counter-intuitive, as a user I'd expect to fully customize my derivative image before invoking elemental init, so that init will be the last step.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When invoking
elemental init
, any existing feature config file on the system will be overwritten. For example:The
04_accounting.yaml
coming with thecloud-config-defaults
feature will overwrite the custom one I copied before. There is no clear indication of the overwriting, so this is prone to mistakes when customizing a derivative image.Describe the solution you'd like
I would like a warning to highlight which files are going to be overwritten. Ideally I would like
elemental init
and my image build to fail due to file conflicts, rather than just emitting a warning.Describe alternatives you've considered
Simply copying the custom file after running
elemental init
solves the problem.The only trouble I have with this is that it's a bit counter-intuitive, as a user I'd expect to fully customize my derivative image before invoking
elemental init
, so that init will be the last step.