An OSTree user noticed that `ostree fsck` would produce `missing
object` errors in the case of interrupted pulls.
It's possible to do e.g. `ostree pull --subpath=/usr/share/rpm ...`,
which gets you just that portion of the commit. The use case for this
was being able to see what changes would appear in an update before
actually downloading all of it.
(I think this would be better covered by static deltas, but those
aren't final yet, and `--subpath` predates it)
Further, `.commitpartial` is used as a successor to the `transaction`
symlink for more precise knowledge in the case where a pull was
interrupted that we needed to resume scanning.
So it makes sense for `ostree fsck` to be aware of it.
If a system administrator happens to type `ostree admin upgrade`
multiple times, currently that will lead to a potentially corrupted
system.
I originally attempted to do locking *internally* in `libostree`, but
that didn't work out because currently a number of the commands
perform multi-step operations that all need to be serialized. All of
the current code in `ostree admin deploy` is an example.
Therefore, allow callers to perform locking, as most of the higher
level logic is presently implemented there.
At some point, we can revisit having internal locking, but it will be
difficult. A more likely approach would be similar to Java's approach
with concurrency on iterators - a "fail fast" method.
Always request detached metadata for commit objects, even if we already
have the commit object. This ensures we fetch any post facto detached
metadata updates such as new GPG signatures.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/748220
First, git doesn't do this, and whatever Linus thinks is right or
something.
Second specifically to OSTree, it's quite common to not have
intermediate commits. If one wants to reset a ref in order to prune
data after a deployment, the parentage check will fail.
Closes: https://github.com/GNOME/ostree/pull/87
rpm-ostree currently uses ostree_repo_checkout_tree(), which as a side
effect will use the uncompressed objects cache by default. This is
rather annoying if you're using rpm-ostree on a server-side
repository, because if you then rsync the repo, you'll be syncing out
the uncompressed objects unless you exclude them.
We added the ability to disable the uncompressed cache in the
repository config to fix this, but it's better to allow application
control over this. The uncompressed cache will in some future version
become opt in as well.
This new API further:
- Drops the `GFile` usage in favor of `openat` APIs
- Improves ergonomics by avoiding callers having to query the source
`GFileInfo` (and carry around a copy of `OSTREE_GIO_FAST_QUERYINFO`)
- Has a more extensible options structure
Per the comment, I rather crudely have the `ostree checkout` builtin
call both APIs to ensure some testing coverage.
However, I'd like to in the future have easier-to-set-up testing code
that calls `libtest.sh` to set up dummy data.
If the starting index is beyond the end of the list, it's a programming
error. Previously, the code was trying to raise a runtime error, but
actually causing a segfault.
This was detected by test code in test-mutable-tree.c, which is removed
in this commit because it should now not be possible to crash here.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/747032
Turns out the expired signature case was failing because the signature
itself was corrupted. Reconstructed the test data and updated the test
code. Note, an expired signature is still counted as valid.
Also, handy debugging trick for setting a key or signature expiry: the
CLI makes it appear the shortest expiry is 1 day, but it also secretly
recognizes "seconds=N".
Wrappers a referenced gpgme_verify_result_t so detailed verify results
can be examined independently of executing a verify operation.
_ostree_gpg_verifier_check_signature() now returns this object instead
of a single valid/invalid boolean, but the idea is for OstreeRepo to also
return this object for commit signature verification so it can be utilized
at the CLI layer (and possibly by other programs).
We already set all file mtimes to 0 so that they are constant
over all checkouts, and can be made constant with a known value from
the system where the ostree was created.
However, this was not happening for directories. Zero their mtimes too.
This is important for shipping a fontconfig cache in the ostree;
the fontconfig cache files embed a directory mtime.
This does an rsync-style prepared delta basically. On my test data,
it shaves ~6MB of uncompressed data. Not a huge amount, but I expect
this to be more useful for things like binaries which embed data, etc.
It's always been suboptimal to have both pull and pull-local; as we go
beyond the raw object data into things like deltas and summary files,
the logic to perform e.g. mirroring should only be in one place.
This will be used by Pulp's OSTree content plugin at least to perform
promotions.
When doing a pull --mirror from an archive-z2 repository into another
archive-z2 repository, currently we gunzip/checksum/gzip each content
object. The re-gzip process in particular is fairly expensive.
This does assume that the upstream content is trusted and correct.
It'd be nice in the future to do at least a CRC check, if not the full
checksum. (Could we append CRC data to the end of filez objects?)
We could also choose to only do this optimization if fetching over
TLS.
before: 1626 metadata, 20320 content objects fetched; 299634 KiB transferred in 62 seconds
after : 1626 metadata, 20320 content objects fetched; 299634 KiB transferred in 11 seconds
See projectatomic/rpm-ostree#42 for rationale. There are two high
level use cases:
- If the OS comes unconfigured, this is a way to point it at a repo of your choice.
- To switch between repositories while keeping the same branch easily.
You create these with something like:
ostree static-delta generate --empty --to=master
These will be automatically used during pull if no previous revision
exists in the target repo.
These work very much like the normal static deltas except they
are named just by the "to" revision. I.e:
deltas/94/f7d2dc23759dd21f9bd01e6705a8fdf98f90cad3e0109ba3f6c091c1a3774d
for a from-scratch to 94f7d2dc23759dd21f9bd01e6705a8fdf98f90cad3e0109ba3f6c091c1a3774d delta.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721799
Matthew Barnes
Colin Walters
Giuseppe Scrivano
Sam Thursfield
Daniel Drake
Alexander Larsson