From 749e79b7ec856f333f79aea571d5a259eae0635f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathon Anderson <janderson@ciq.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:04:59 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Clone to a site overlay when adding files in wwapi

Signed-off-by: Jonathon Anderson <janderson@ciq.com>
---
 internal/pkg/overlay/overlay.go | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/internal/pkg/overlay/overlay.go b/internal/pkg/overlay/overlay.go
index 9a3f4241..2e59840b 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/overlay/overlay.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/overlay/overlay.go
@@ -116,6 +116,16 @@ func (overlay Overlay) IsDistributionOverlay() bool {
 
 func (overlay Overlay) AddFile(filePath string, content []byte, parents bool, force bool) error {
 	wwlog.Info("Creating file %s in overlay %s, force: %v", filePath, overlay.Name(), force)
+
+	if overlay.IsDistributionOverlay() {
+		siteOverlay, err := overlay.CloneSiteOverlay()
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to clone distribution overlay '%s' to site overlay: %w", overlay.Name(), err)
+		}
+		// replace the overlay with newly creatd siteOverlay
+		overlay = siteOverlay
+	}
+
 	fullPath := overlay.File(filePath)
 	// create necessary parent directories
 	if parents {