[systemd-devel] systemd-nspawn --setenv=SOMETHING=other: What is that for?

[Tobias Hunger]

Hi Lennart,

the ContainerInterface says: "The container manager should set
$container_uuid= as environment variable for the container's PID 1 to
the container UUID it wants to set."

I had expected that to be implemented by not resetting this
environment variable when starting whichever service file is running
systemd-machine-id-setup.

I might look into this, but I won't promise anything.

Best Regards,
Tobias

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 25.10.15 09:30, Peter Paule (systemd-devel at fedux.org) wrote:
>
>> Hi Tobias,
>>
>> > Most non-trivial docker images need that. Should I open a feature request
>>
>> that makes sense. I asked the same some time ago. It's on their
>> TODO-list, but at that time they didn't use Github for their feature
>> requests. See https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/TODO#L60.
>> Please ping me, if you opened the FR/PR.
>
> Yeah, I'd be happy to take a patch that adds "PassEnvironment=" or so
> that may be used to import select PID1 env vars into a service
> environment.
>
> But this really should be opt-in and whitelested, to ensure that
> service environments are clean by default, and people explicit pick
> what they want inherited and what not.
>
> Lennart
>
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