Add API to write a deployment state to `/run/ostree/staged-deployment`,
along with a systemd service which runs at shutdown time.
This is a big change to the ostree model for hosts,
but it closes a longstanding set of bugs; many, many people have
hit the "losing changes in /etc" problem. It also avoids
the other problem of racing with programs that modify `/etc`
such as LVM backups:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1365297
We need this in particular to go to a full-on model for
automatically updated host systems where (like a dual-partition model)
everything is fully prepared and the reboot can be taken
asynchronously.
Closes: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/545Closes: #1503
Approved by: jlebon
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Signed-off-by: Marcus Folkesson <marcus.folkesson@gmail.com>
Closes: #1439
Approved by: cgwalters
It will be used by the fsck utility in future. We could expose it
publicly in future too, if needed.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Closes: #1347
Approved by: cgwalters
We added a `.dir-locals.el` in commit: 9a77017d87
There's no need to have it per-file, with that people might think
to add other editors, which is the wrong direction.
Closes: #1206
Approved by: jlebon
If one wants to set up a mount for `/var` in `/etc/fstab`, it
won't be mounted since `ostree-prepare-root` set up a bind mount for
`/var` to `/sysroot/ostree/$stateroot/var`, and systemd will take
the already extant mount over what's in `/etc/fstab`.
There are a few options to fix this, but what I settled on is parsing
`/etc/fstab` in a generator (exactly like `systemd-fstab-generator` does),
except here we look for an explicit mount for `/var`, and if one *isn't* found,
synthesize the default ostree mount to the stateroot. Another nice property is
that if an admin creates a `var.mount` unit in `/etc` for example, that will
also override our mount.
Note that today ostree doesn't hard depend on systemd, so this behavior only
kicks in if we're built with systemd *and* libmount support (for parsing
`/etc/fstab`). I didn't really test that case though.
Initially I started writing this as a "pure libc" program, but at one point
decided to use `libostree.so` to find the booted deployment. That didn't work
out because `/boot` wasn't necessarily mounted and hence we couldn't find the
bootloader config. A leftover artifact from this is that the generator code
calls into libostree via the "cmd private" infrastructure. But it's an easy way
to share code, and doesn't hurt.
Closes: #859
Approved by: jlebon
I often want to have "idempotent" systems that iterate to a known
state. If after generating a commit, the system is interrupted, I'd
like the next run to still generate a delta. But we don't want to
regenerate if one exists, hence this option.
Closes: #375
Approved by: jlebon
As rpm-ostree evolves, it keeps driving API additions to libostree.
This creates a relatively tight coupling.
However, if delivering via e.g. RPM, unless one manually remembers to
increment the `Requires:` in the spec file, it's possible for the two
to become desynchronized.
RPM handles versioned symbols and will ensure a dependency if the
application starts using a newer version.
To implement this, switch to `-fvisibility=hidden`, along with an
annotation in the header, and finally add a `.sym` file.
This matches what other projects like systemd and libvirt do.
Although rather than attempting to retroactively version symbols, glom
them all onto the current one.
Right now though, almost all of the details of deltas are private, so
we can't do the "honest thing" and have the command line just use the
shared library.
Eventually some of this should appear in the API, but for now add
command line which is useful for debugging.
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.
Joseph Marrero
Colin Walters
Marcus Folkesson
Philip Withnall
Alexander Larsson
Giuseppe Scrivano