Switch to using a systemd generator for /var

If one wants to set up a mount for `/var` in `/etc/fstab`, it
won't be mounted since `ostree-prepare-root` set up a bind mount for
`/var` to `/sysroot/ostree/$stateroot/var`, and systemd will take
the already extant mount over what's in `/etc/fstab`.

There are a few options to fix this, but what I settled on is parsing
`/etc/fstab` in a generator (exactly like `systemd-fstab-generator` does),
except here we look for an explicit mount for `/var`, and if one *isn't* found,
synthesize the default ostree mount to the stateroot. Another nice property is
that if an admin creates a `var.mount` unit in `/etc` for example, that will
also override our mount.

Note that today ostree doesn't hard depend on systemd, so this behavior only
kicks in if we're built with systemd *and* libmount support (for parsing
`/etc/fstab`).  I didn't really test that case though.

Initially I started writing this as a "pure libc" program, but at one point
decided to use `libostree.so` to find the booted deployment. That didn't work
out because `/boot` wasn't necessarily mounted and hence we couldn't find the
bootloader config. A leftover artifact from this is that the generator code
calls into libostree via the "cmd private" infrastructure. But it's an easy way
to share code, and doesn't hurt.

Closes: #859
Approved by: jlebon
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Colin Walters authored and Atomic Bot committed 2017-05-16 16:13:05 +00:00
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@@ -1379,6 +1379,7 @@ install_deployment_kernel (OstreeSysroot *sysroot,
val = ostree_bootconfig_parser_get (bootconfig, "options");
/* Note this is parsed in ostree-impl-system-generator.c */
g_autofree char *ostree_kernel_arg = g_strdup_printf ("ostree=/ostree/boot.%d/%s/%s/%d",
new_bootversion, osname, bootcsum,
ostree_deployment_get_bootserial (deployment));