On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 13:05 -0500, 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. No, I don't believe that's accurate. It's more of a major/minor thing. The 'lower layer' can be updated with bug and security fixes without any rebuild or change needed to 'upper layers'. You only need a rebuild if the 'lower layer' is doing a "major" incompatible update (this is something the lower layer is in charge of defining). For e.g., in my `flatpak list` right now, I have these: Name Application ID Version Branch Origin Installation Fedora Platform org.fedoraproject.Platform 38 f38 fedora system Freedesktop Platform org.freedesktop.Platform 22.08.12.1 22.08 flathub system the "branch" there is the 'major' version. App flatpaks will say they require "f38" Fedora platform or "22.08" Freedesktop platform, and there can be updates within those branches (e.g. maybe I'll get 22.08.12.2 or 22.08.13.1 of the Freedesktop platform as an update) without the app flatpaks changing. But for an app flatpak to 'rebase' to "f39" or "23.04" (or whatever the next version is gonna be, I don't actually know), *that* would require a rebuild. -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @adamw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx https://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
