[Centos-automotive-sig] Request for initoverlayfs in SIG RPM repository

Mon Feb 19 16:46:59 UTC 2024
Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou at pingoured.fr>

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 12:50:49PM +0000, Eric Curtin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to request adding an initoverlayfs RPM to the automotive-sig
> RPM repository. This package is required for integrating initoverlayfs such
> as in the pending merge request:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/CentOS/automotive/sample-images/-/merge_requests/457
> 
> initoverlayfs allows you to run larger applications in early boot initial
> file systems. By using transparent compression and transparent integrity
> checking it ensures these operations only occur when a file is accessed.
> Rather than in initramfs when this is done upfront to the whole initial
> filesystem for all the data regardless of whether the data is used or not.

I assume you need just the dist-git part (ie a repo under the `rpms`
namespace), right?


Pierre