On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 at 21:43, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017, at 02:58 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > But if I've understood correctly, any changes to the base will be > > > discarded > > > when you update the base image. right? > > No; `rpm-ostree install` is persistent, and so are other changes like > `rpm-ostree initramfs --enable` and so is the recently added `ex override`: > https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/pull/852 > > A bit more information about layering and live changes: > http://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2017/06/rpm-ostree-v2017.6-released/ > > What Chris is talking about is `ostree admin unlock` which is *designed* > to go away after reboot: > https://lists.projectatomic.io/projectatomic-archives/atomic-devel/2016-March/msg00128.html > > > I'm not sure what the long term plan is. Right now changes to /usr > > (normally read only) > > It's more that rpm-ostree is the *sole* tool that mutates /usr; every > change is an atomic, interrupt-able transaction queued for the next boot > by default (unless one invokes `ex livefs`): Even local RPM installation: [...] > (How did it work if /usr stays read-only the entire time? It's because > rpm-ostree knows how to go > "underneath" the mount, which really comes from /sysroot) > > Big picture, as it says on github, rpm-ostree aims to be a full > hybrid image/package system, also supporting both offline updates > *and* online updates if you want that - anything that is "you can't do that" > is a bug.
This is very cool! Is this documented somewhere public? If not, it'd make a great Fedora Magazine article. Please write one! Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
