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
Example user story: Jane rebases her OS to a new major version N, and wants to
keep around N-1 even after a few upgrades for a while so she can easily roll
back. I plan to add `rpm-ostree rebase --pin` to opt-in to this for example.
Builds on the new `libostree-transient` group to store pinning state there.
Closes: https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/1460Closes: #1464
Approved by: jlebon
The `origin/unlocked` and `origin/override-commit` keys are examples of state
that's really transient; we don't want to maintain them across upgrades. Right
now there are bits for this in both `ostree admin upgrade` as well as in
rpm-ostree.
This new API will slightly clean up both cases, but it's really prep for adding
a concept of deployment "pinning" that will live in the new
`libostree-transient` group.
Closes: #1464
Approved by: jlebon
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
I'm trying to improve the developer experience on OSTree-managed
systems, and I had an epiphany the other day - there's no reason we
have to be absolutely against mutating the current rootfs live. The
key should be making it easy to rollback/reset to a known good state.
I see this command as useful for two related but distinct workflows:
- `ostree admin unlock` will assume you're doing "development". The
semantics hare are that we mount an overlayfs on `/usr`, but the
overlay data is in `/var/tmp`, and is thus discarded on reboot.
- `ostree admin unlock --hotfix` first clones your current deployment,
then creates an overlayfs over `/usr` persistent
to this deployment. Persistent in that now the initramfs switchroot
tool knows how to mount it as well. In this model, if you want
to discard the hotfix, at the moment you roll back/reboot into
the clone.
Note originally, I tried using `rofiles-fuse` over `/usr` for this,
but then everything immediately explodes because the default (at least
CentOS 7) SELinux policy denies tons of things (including `sshd_t`
access to `fusefs_t`). Sigh.
So the switch to `overlayfs` came after experimentation. It still
seems to have some issues...specifically `unix_chkpwd` is broken,
possibly because it's setuid? Basically I can't ssh in anymore.
But I *can* `rpm -Uvh strace.rpm` which is handy.
NOTE: I haven't tested the hotfix path fully yet, specifically
the initramfs bits.
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.
Colin Walters
Giuseppe Scrivano