These fsyncs were added for what turned out to be a fairly bogus
reason; I was hitting read errors from extlinux after upgrades and out
of conservatisim tried adding fsync calls, but the *actual* problem
was that extlinux didn't support 64 bit ext4. Now that at least for
Project Atomic hosts we're just targeting grub2, we can drop these
fsync calls and rely on `syncfs()` being both faster and catching any
errors.
For some sort of crazy reason, the `sync()` system call doesn't
actually return an error code, even though from what I can tell in the
kernel it wouldn't be terribly hard to add.
Regardless though, it is better for userspace apps to use `syncfs()`
to avoid flushing filesystems unrelated to what they want to sync. In
the case of OSTree, this does matter - for example you might have a
network mount point backing your database, and we don't want to block
upgrades on syncing it.
This change is safe because we're doing syncfs in *addition* to the
previous global `sync()` (a revision from an earlier patch).
Now because OSTree only touches the `/` mount point which covers the
repository, the deployment roots (including their copy of `/etc`), as
well as `/boot`, we should at some point later be able to drop the
`sync()` call. Note that on initial system installs we do relabel
`/var` but that shouldn't happen at ostree time - any new directories
are taken care of via `systemd-tmpfiles` on boot.
This will be used by rpm-ostree to unset the immutable bit temporarily
in order to do package layering. We could add an API to deploy a tree
without the immutable bit, but this is simpler.
subscription-manager has a daemon that runs in a confined domain,
and it doesn't have permission to write usr_t, which is the default
label of /ostree/deploy/$osname/deploy.
A better long term fix is probably to move the origin file into the
deployment root as /etc/ostree/origin.conf or so.
In the meantime, let's ensure the .origin files are labeled as
configuration.
rpm-ostree at least has the option to generate a tree with just that
instead of /boot, but while we were enumerating the latter, we'd still
return paths from /boot.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740947
Use the pattern:
$PRETTY_NAME [$COMMIT_VERSION] (ostree[:$OSNAME][:$DEPLOYMENT_INDEX])
$OSNAME is only shown if there are multiple values.
$COMMIT_VERSION refers to the version tag in the commit's metadata.
$DEPLOYMENT_INDEX is only shown if no $COMMIT_VERSION is available.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739416
We need basic support for UEFI - many newer servers don't support
BIOS compatibility mode anymore.
However, this patch only implements non-atomic because UEFI is FAT, and
we can't do the previous design for OSTree of atomic swap of
/boot/loader.
The Fedora/RHEL UEFI layout has the kernels on a "real" /boot
partition, and /boot/efi/EFI/$vendor just holds the grub2 UEFI binary
and grub.cfg.
Following this, /boot/loader is still on the OS boot partition, and we
still atomically swap it. This potentially paves the way to atomic
upgrades in the future.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724246
In this approach, we drop a /etc/grub.d/15_ostree file which is a
hybrid of shell/C that picks up bits from the GRUB2 library (e.g. the
block device script generation), and then calls into libostree's
GRUB2 code which knows about the BLS entries.
This is admittedly ugly. There exists another approach for GRUB2 to
learn the BLS specification. However, the spec has a few issues:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2014-July/msg00002.html
This approach also gives a bit more control to the admin via the
naming of the 15_ostree symlink; they can easily disable it:
Or reorder the ostree entries ahead of 10_linux:
Also, this approach doesn't require patches for grub2, which is an
issue with the pressure to backport (rpm-)OSTree to EL7.
Previously, in the case where a parent directory of a modified config
file was removed, we would throw an exception. This happens when
switching from a tree that has some software (e.g. firewalld), to one
that does not.
While it's nice to have this warning that your config file probably no
longer applies, there's no need to make it so...fatal.
It's particularly problematic that the only easy workaround is to
remove the config files from your current tree - which breaks
rollback.
The solution then is for for us to take ownership of the parent
directories too into the new /etc. Admins can clean up these files
afterwards at any time.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734293
This fixes a regression introduced with https://git.gnome.org/browse/ostree/commit/?id=7baa600e237b326899de2899a9bc54a6b863943c
The original code in "ostree admin upgrade" had a comment:
/* Here we perform cleanup of any leftover data from previous
* partial failures. This avoids having to call gs_shutil_rm_rf()
* at random points throughout the process. */
But since I deleted that initial cleanup call, we *do* need to do the
cleanup during the process run. It turns out there are only a few
places this is necessary.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733030
While looking to fix a different bug here, I found the current
state of things where we had a mix of fd-relative API versus not
frustrating.
Change the code around to consistently use *at, and also add some more
tests.
This prevents people from creating new directories there and expecting
them to be persisted. The OSTree model has all local state to be in
/etc and /var.
This introduces a compile-time dependency on libe2fsprogs.
We're only doing this for the root directory at the moment.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728006
There's two halves to this; first, when we create an hierarchy, we
need to call fsync(). Second, we need to fsync again anytime after
we've modified a directory.
Trying to implement "rpm-ostree rollback", in the case where we have 2
deployments with the same bootconfig that we're reordering, we need to
write bootconfig, not just swap the bootlinks.
It turns out people sometimes want to be able to change the kernel
arguments. Add a convenient API to do so for the current deployment.
This will be used by Anaconda.
It's better if this is independent from the OstreeSysroot; for
example, a policy is active in a given deployment root at once, not
for a sysroot globally.
We can also collect SELinux-related API in one place.
Unfortunately at the moment there can be only one instance of this
class per process.
First, /var needs to be labeled at least once. We should probably
rearrange things so that /var is only created (and labeled) on the
first deployment, but this patch adds a /var/.ostree-selabeled file
instead.
Second, when doing the /etc merge, we compare the xattrs of the old
/usr/etc versus the current /etc. The problem with that is that the
policy has different labels for /usr/etc on disk than the real /etc.
The correct fix for this is a bit invasive - we have to take the
physical content of the old /usr/etc, but compare the labels as if
they were really in /etc.
Instead for now, just ignore changes to xattrs. If the file
content/mode changes, then we take the new file (including any changed
xattrs).
Bottom line: just doing chcon -t blah_t /etc/foo.conf may be lost on
upgrade (for now).
Matthew Barnes
Colin Walters
Giuseppe Scrivano