[CentOS-devel] ostree as a delivery model

Fri Apr 4 19:59:30 UTC 2014
Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org>

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> I think I'm missing the point of what it does - at least for your
> first system.  Where does the baremetal hardware
> detection/configuration happen?

Anaconda is what installs:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2014-March/msg00028.html


I did the patches against an older branch of Anaconda, I'm working on 
porting them to rawhide.

However on the "compose server" side, the trees are not "installs".  
It's quite close to just "rpm2cpio"ing all of the RPMs into an unpacked 
root, running the %post, and committing that.

A key difference though is that ostree demands that the trees can be 
updated without %post on the client.  This lack of %post requires some 
design changes in the OS content.  See for example:

/usr/lib/passwd:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16142

SELinux:
http://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=139571299908156&w=2


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