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== Problem statement ==
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== Problem statement ==
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Hacking on the core operating system is painful. We want a system
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Hacking on the core operating system is painful - this includes most
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that matches these requirements:
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of GNOME from upower and NetworkManager up to gnome-shell. I want a
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system that matches these requirements:
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0) Does not disturb your existing OS
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0) Does not disturb your existing OS
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1) Is not terribly slow to use
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1) Is not terribly slow to use
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this means you can't build NetworkManager, and thus are permanently
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this means you can't build NetworkManager, and thus are permanently
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stuck on whatever the distro provides.
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stuck on whatever the distro provides.
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== Who is hacktree for? ==
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First - operating system developers and testers. I specifically keep
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a few people in mind - Dan Williams and Eric Anholt, as well as myself
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obviously. For Eric Anholt, a key use case for him is being able to
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try out the latest gnome-shell, and combine it with his work on Mesa,
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and see how it works/performs - while retaining the ability to roll
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back if one or both breaks.
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The rollback concept is absolutely key for shipping anything to
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enthusiasts or knowledable testers. With a system like this, a tester
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can easily perform a local rollback - something just not well
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supported by dpkg/rpm. (Why not Conary? AIUI Conary is targeted at
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individual roots, so while you could roll back a given root, it would
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use significantly more disk space than hacktree)
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Also, distributing operating system trees (instead of packages) gives
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us a sane place to perform automated QA **before** we ship it to
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testers. We should never be wasting these people's time.
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Even better, this system would allow testers to bisect across
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operating system builds efficiently.
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== The core idea ==
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== The core idea ==
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chroots are the original lightweight "virtualization". Let's use
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chroots are the original lightweight "virtualization". Let's use
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