I'd like to encourage people to make OSTree-managed systems more
strictly read-only in multiple places. Ideally everywhere is
read-only normally besides `/var/`, `/tmp/`, and `/run`.
`/boot` is a good example of something to make readonly. Particularly
now that there's work on the `admin unlock` verb, we need to protect
the system better against things like `rpm -Uvh kernel.rpm` because
the RPM-packaged kernel won't understand how to do OSTree right.
In order to make this work of course, we *do* need to remount `/boot`
as writable when we're doing an upgrade that changes the kernel
configuration. So the strategy is to detect whether it's read-only,
and if so, temporarily mount read-write, then remount read-only when
the upgrade is done.
We can generalize this in the future to also do `/etc` (and possibly
`/sysroot/ostree/` although that gets tricky).
One detail: In order to detect "is this path a mountpoint" is
nontrivial - I looked at copying the systemd code, but the right place
is to use `libmount` anyways.
OSTree's code for testing predates the `glib-tap.mk` making its
way into GLib. Let's switch to it, as it provides a number
of advantages.
By far the biggest advantage is that `make check` can start to run
most of the tests *in addition* to having them work installed.
This commit keeps the installed tests working, but `make check` turns
out to be really broken because...our TAP usage has bitrotted to say
the least. Fix that all up.
Do some hacks so that the tests work uninstalled as well - in
particular, `glib-tap.mk` and the bits encoded into
`g_test_build_filename()` assume *recursive* Automake (blah). Work
around that by creating a symlink when installed to loop back.
While it's not strictly tied to OSTree, let's move
https://github.com/cgwalters/rofiles-fuse in here because:
- It's *very* useful in concert with OSTree
- It's tiny
- We can reuse OSTree's test, documentation, etc. infrastructure
One thing to consider also is that at some point we could experiment
with writing a FUSE filesystem for OSTree. This could internalize a
better equivalent of `--link-checkout-speedup`, but on the other hand,
the cost of walking filesystem trees for these types of operations is
really quite small.
But if we did decide to do more FUSE things in OSTree, this is a step
towards that too.
This is preparation for introducing a `mkdocs` manual under `doc/`
which should be significantly more useful for the world at large than
the minimal manual that exists there now.
A lot of effort here just to avoid touching SoupSession directly in
ostree_fetcher_new(). The reason will become apparent in subsequent
commits.
Note this introduces generated enum/flags GTypes using glib-mkenums.
I could have just made the property type as plain integer, but doing
properties right will henceforth be easier now that the automake-fu
is established.
Use the parse-datetime module from gnulib, and adapt it to not require
other modules as portability is not really an issue for us.
DATE can be specified in different formats, such as: "-1 week", "last
monday", "1 week ago".
Include the generated .c file in the repository so to not add another
dependency to Bison.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
In anticipation of API enhancements for GPG signature verification, which
would otherwise require a non-functional stub version were GPGME excluded.
GPGME is a pretty lightweight dependency, and the motivation to exclude
it is not clear.
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.
Colin Walters
Alexander Larsson
Matthew Barnes
Giuseppe Scrivano
Jeremy Cline
Daniel Svensson
Vincent Batts