On 20.01.2014 19:03, Colin Walters wrote:
Hello devel@, I'm excited to announce the first public release (v2014.3) of the fedostree/rpm-ostree project. The web page is here: http://rpm-ostree.cloud.fedoraproject.org/#/ rpm-ostree is a quite new, raw, and also quite unofficial project (the instance above is in the Fedora private scratch cloud). It is suitable for evaluation primarily by engineers who are working on build/packaging/deployment tooling in Fedora, and advanced testers. If you're one of those people, before you read any more, if you have a few minutes, please jump to: http://rpm-ostree.cloud.fedoraproject.org/images/ and start downloading the preconfigured VM. (Or alternatively see http://rpm-ostree.cloud.fedoraproject.org/#/installation for parallel install instructions inside an existing system). I've often struggled with explaining OSTree to people - but for the audience here, I want to emphasize that OSTree is designed to be *complementary* to package systems like rpm/dpkg. While OSTree does take over some roles from RPM such as handling /etc, if you study it carefully, I think you'll come to agree. The overall vision is to change Fedora (and really its prominent downstream) into a less flexible, but more reliable set of products, tested and delivered *much* *much* faster. That's about all for this mail - the "Background" section of the web page has more. As for what's coming next - I plan to bring gnome-continuous style fast testing to the rpm-ostree codebase too (assuming I get push notification from Koji). For example, test boot both "fedostree/20/x86_64/base/minimal", "fedostree/20/x86_64/workstation/gnome/core" after any package affecting them changes. Then if the tests pass, tag those trees as smoketested, like: "fedostree/20/smoketested/x86_64/base/minimal". If you have questions, please follow up here! (There's no mailing list for rpm-ostree at the moment; you can use ostree-list@xxxxxxxxx for questions about the core OSTree model). What I need now is evaluation from some of the stakeholders in various parts of the deployment stack; for example, the changes to the handling of /var in RPM needs discussion.
Interesting. I've downloaded the VM Image and tried to understand the setup. Apparently there exist sort of two root trees / and /sysroot in the system with some links targeting the /sysroot tree. What I'm wondering about is that /dev/mapper/fedora-root is mounted several times on /, /var, /usr and /sysroot (twice!) sometimes rw and sometimes ro.
The impression I get is that /sysroot is the actual root fs in the image and / the ostree directory at least that's what the links seem to suggest. I still don't understand the mount-voodoo though. Is there some documentation about this available?
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