[xen-tools-discuss] [PATCH] bin: support hook overrides in xt-customize-image

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Adrian,

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 04:24:57PM +0100, Adrian C. wrote:
> Hello, I recently inherited Debian Xen hosts and soon ran into a bug in 
> one of the hooks that broke new deployments (IIRC passwd was stuck 
> waiting for input).
> 
> Next I wanted to generate and distribute my own openssh-server keys 
> which were getting overwritten by those generated in one of the hooks...  
> and so on.
> 
> I hope I illustrated (and that you will agree with me) that sometimes it 
> is useful for sysadmins to have the ability to override, disable or 
> patch hooks without editing binaries in /usr/lib/ (which can also get 
> ovewritten in the future).

Yes, despite there was not enough innformation in there to see if
there are real bugs causing the issues you described just tersely. :-)

Thanks for the idea and the patch! Applied and will be pushed soon.

		Kind regards, Axel
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