The builder wants the ability to mark a given file as e.g. setuid. To
implement this, the repo now has a callback-based API when importing a
directory to modify or remove items.
The commit tool accepts a "statoverride" file as input which looks like:
+mode /path/to/file
If multiple files have the same hash, we need to ensure we're not
overwriting other tempfiles in the same transaction. Instead
just delete them, since we know they're in the repo.
I'm trying to keep ostree as being closer to just being the versioning
filesystem, so let's split out the triggers into a different binary
(although still namespaced ostree-).
The tar files we're making of artifacts don't include parent
directories. Now we could change the builder to make them, but we can
also just autocreate them on import. Mode 0755 with no xattrs seems
OK here.
It's pretty trivial to map a previously existing commit tree into a
mutable tree too. While we're here change the command line arguments
for commit so that we can now properly overlay any combination of
directory, commit, or tarfile.
Rather than offering high level "commit directory", instead perform
operations on a mtree. Commits are treated more like regular objects.
Change the commit builtin to drive this all at a lower level.
The tar import code forced the resuscitation of a hackish "FileTree"
data type for representing an in-memory tree. Split this out
into an OstreeMutableTree class for future use by any other in-memory
tree construction.
ostbuild will generate two artifacts: foo-runtime.tar.gz and
foo-devel.tar.gz in the general case. When committing to the devel
tree, it'd be lame (i.e. slower and not atomic) to have to commit
twice.
This will allow us to have hardlink checkouts of archives. A key use
case here is an archive repo of an OS (with root-owned files etc.)
where we want to do builds in a user tree.
A positive side effect of doing things this way is that now the SHA256
checksums for a given file should be identical regardless of whether
it's stored in an archive or bare repository.
It's too confusing that we call the mode "archive" but the actual
files ".packfile". Also, git already has a "packfile" that serves a
totally different purpose.
Note this change makes it so we no longer call link() from an import
filesystem tree to the repository. This is a Good Thing really; it
makes local FS commits slower, but also less prone to corruption.
We really want the ability to take a .tar.gz and directly import
it into a repository, without creating a temporary filesystem tree.
First, doing it this way is significantly faster. Also, this allows
us to handle importing tar files with e.g. uid 0 files into packed
repositories as non-root, which is very useful for tests and builds.
Colin Walters