On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:57 AM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 06:38:30PM +0000, WillyPillow wrote:
>
> > I'm almost finished with the list/download/install operations, and should be
> > able to commit the code in the following days. [^1] That being said, in
> > mgmtVMs, I currently don't have a means to get the repo config files, as
> > they
> > seem to reside only in the qubes-release package.
>
> Oh, that's right. It would be possible to split repo definitions into
> separate sub-package, but it's a bit tricky, because we can't add the
> whole qubes-release package into repository for a VM - that would break
> the template (replace fedora-release with qubes-release).
> And also, I don't think template repositories should be added to dnf in
> vm.
>
> Perhaps a better solution would be to create new separate package with
> template repository definitions only and have it installable in both
> dom0 and VM. And have those definitions outside of /etc/yum.repos.d, so
> yum/dnf wouldn't use them normally (/usr/share/qubes/repo-templates?),
> but only when called by qvm-template with options specifically pointing
> at those files.
>
> What do you think?
Originally I thought of creating another version of the package only containing
the repo definitions, just for VMs, but this is indeed a simpler solution. I'll
try to create such a package in the following days.
> > Similarly, I'm unsure how to
> > get the Qubes release from mgmtVMs. Perhaps a package similar to
> > qubes-release
> > is needed in VMs? (Or is there a simpler solution?)
>
> There is /usr/share/qubes/marker-vm file for this reason. It isn't 100%
> accurate, as you can restore template from older system on a newer one.
> But I think it should be good enough for this use case. If you want to
> manage templates on Qubes 4.1, use VM with packages from Qubes 4.1.
>
> > [^1]: Unfortunately this also means that I'm a bit behind on my original
> > schedule. Hopefully I'm able to catch up soon.
I've committed an initial version of the {list,download,install,remove,clean}
operations to core-admin-client. Admittedly, I have yet to test it thoroughly
in mgmtVMs (most of the tests were done in dom0), though as the only major
difference should be the qrexec calls, I should be able to finish that soon.
The remaining operations (reinstall, ...etc) should also be easier to implement
as they are similar to the existing ones.
Thanks,
WillyPillow
> https://blog.nerde.pw/
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