On 6/5/23 2:05 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Stephen Smoogen <ssmoogen@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
1. What is a flatpak and what does it mean to have an application in it? Is
it everything bundled in it or does it use layers?
It's layered, but from what I understand, an upper layer depends on a
specific build of a lower layer. So using the up-thread example, if
there's a security update to zlib, the lower layer can rebuild to pick
it up, but until the upper layer (like say LO) also rebuilds on top of
the new lower layer, they'll be running on the old version.
These layers (runtimes and addons) can be updated and applications take
the changes after being restarted, no nee to rebuild. The rebuild is
only needed if the library is bundled with the applications because it
isn't part of the chosen runtime or addons.
Runtimes contains aren´t and entire Linux distribution, so applications
frequently need to bundle libraries. Sites like flathub should add a
way to check bundled dependencies in order to notify packagers of
updating an application. Like server container need security audit tools.
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