#5174 HIGH Never A: Shallow copy is not atomic - shutdown during first boot is fatal

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#5174: Shallow copy is not atomic - shutdown during first boot is fatal
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  Reporter:  kimquirk  |       Owner:  jg            
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  high      |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
 Component:  distro    |     Version:                
Resolution:            |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0         |  
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Comment(by wad):

 Experience has shown that approach (3) will probably screw up the build.

 The example that comes to mind is that /etc/hosts will contain a line
 inserted by the host used to build the image (see #4448 for what happened
 last time I tried this...)   There are probably others.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5174#comment:3>
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