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Package: ostree
Version: 2016.5-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: help
We should document how to prepare a Debian-derived system with specified
contents (for example task-desktop) for deployment via OSTree, analogous
to what <https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree> does for Red Hat
systems.
<https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manual/adapting-existing/>
has some general notes based on experience of deploying RPM systems
with OSTree, which should be broadly applicable to dpkg systems.
In particular, carrying out the /usr merge (usrmerge) is recommended
when deploying via OSTree, /etc may need some special handling,
dpkg metadata needs to be moved/symlinked/bind-mounted under /usr
(because it is only as mutable as /usr) or removed, and special handling
will be needed for /etc/passwd and /etc/group because the OSTree deployment
includes uids/gids by numeric value. Reserving a uid/gid range for
the OSTree-managed system users in each ostree-deployed Debian derivative,
and using libnss-extrausers or similar, might be useful.
I think this aspect of OSTree is perhaps more practically useful right now
for limited-scope Debian derivatives (Endless? SteamOS?) than it is for
general-purpose Debian or Ubuntu.
S
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Version: 2019.3-2
On Mon, 02 Mar 2020 at 12:53:36 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> ostree-boot got in a while ago and it looks like you added the documentation
> Felix started in [2]https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ostree/-/commits/debian/
> master/debian/ostree-boot-examples. So, I think this can be closed now?
Yes. Sorry, I forgot to close this in the changelog at the time.
I don't routinely use ostree in this way myself, so please send any
corrections, clarifications or updates as merge requests or patches.
Thanks,
smcv
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