This is analogous to the filtering support for the commit API: we allow
library users to skip over checking out specific files. This is useful
in some tricky situations where we *know* that the files to be checked
out will conflict with existing files in subtle ways.
One such example is in rpm-ostree support for multilib. There, we want
to allow checking out a package onto an existing tree, but skipping over
files that are not coloured to our preferred value (e.g. not overwriting
an i686 version of `ldconfig` if we already have the `x86_64` version).
See https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/pull/1227 for details.
Closes: #1441
Approved by: cgwalters
The new --selinux-policy added in [0] exposed a subtle issue in the way
we handle labeling during commit. The CI system in rpm-ostree hit this
when trying to make use of it[1].
Basically, because of the way we use a GVariant to represent xattrs, if
a file to be committed already has an SELinux label, the xattr object
ends up with *two* label entries. This of course throws off fsck later
on, since the checksum will have gone over both entries, even though the
on-disk file will only have a single label (in which the second entry
wins).
I confirmed that the `fsck` added in the installed test fails without
the rest of this patch.
[0] https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/pull/1114
[1] https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/pull/953Closes: #1121
Approved by: cgwalters
This was really straightforward to implement, and is useful
for dev/test scenarios mainly like we have in rpm-ostree at least.
Closes: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/1113Closes: #1114
Approved by: jlebon
Jonathan Lebon
Colin Walters