I was working on a different test, and ended up being very confused at
the behavior where removing the last deployment didn't remove the last
`ostree/X/X/X` ref pointing to its commit.
There's no reason to special case the last undeployment AFAIK, and the
existing code handles this.
There's no reason to keep them hidden. I have a hard policy that
OSTree should *not* be used to carry secrets. Things like host ssh
private keys should be set up out of band by an OS-external
configuration mechanism such as kickstart, cloud-init, etc.
We also assume that hiding binaries is not very useful as most
attackers would be able to find them on the Internet or (for
subscribed content) acting as a customer.
This fixes a bug with mirroring because we changed to take the
unmodified upstream objects rather than uncompress <-> recompress.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748959
Eliminates the need for constantly passing --sysroot=sysroot, but
also makes ostree place remote configs for sysroot/ostree/repo in
sysroot/etc/ostree/remotes.d where they should have been all along.
I did a quick audit pass through the pull code. What I focused on the
most is the case where `gpg-verify-summary=true`, and in particular
where `gpg-verify=false` too. This should be a valid and secure
configuration.
The primary change here is to error out very quickly if either
`summary` or `summary.sig` are 404. Previously, we'd only error out
if we were processing deltas.
Expand the existing test case to cover this, plus invalid summary and
invalid sig. (The test case was failing with current git master too).
Works like "ostree refs" but fetches refs from a remote repo.
This depends on the remote repo having a summary file, but any repo
being served over HTTP *ought* to have one.
libtest always makes a copy of the gpghome directory to the test
directory, so there's no need to operate on the installed copy. This
allows test-remote-gpg-import to pass as an unprivileged user since it
otherwise couldn't create the temp files gpgme creates.
On 32 bit systems, _FILE_OFFSET_BITS will be set to 64 by
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE. This causes the glibc headers to use readdir64 rather
than readdir. Emulate that behavior in the preloader or the tests will
all fail with "No such file or directory".
Just noticed this while debugging something else. We don't want to
commit the whole test dir, just the workdir.
Trying to commit the repo itself is potentially subject to race
conditions at least.
Having undefined (but in practice rarely changing) ordering for
`readdir()` ended up screwing us over for bootloader config
generation; see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226520
Let's make things significantly more likely to fail more quickly in
the future if similar bugs are introduced. We accomplish this by
introducing a little `LD_PRELOAD` library that randomizes the results
of `readdir()`.
Having undefined ordering (but in practice rarely changing)
ordering for `readdir()` ended up screwing us over with respect
to bootloader config file read ordering.
Let's make things significantly more likely to fail more quickly in
the future if similar bugs are introduced. We accomplish this by
introducing a little `LD_PRELOAD` library that randomizes the results
of `readdir()`.
One can run this on a machine to validate things. I'd like to
get this plugged into the actual OSTree tests as soon as we can
figure out how to sanely run grub2-generate as non-root in
our test suite.
Alternatively, this script can easily be run on a real install.
External daemons like rpm-ostree want push notification any time a
change is made by an external entity. inotify provides notification,
but a problem is there's no easy way to monitor all of the refs.
In the past, there has been discussion of opt-in recursive timestamps:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/5/307
But in today's world, let's just bump the mtime on the repo itself, as
a central inotify point.
Closes: https://github.com/GNOME/ostree/pull/111
When I removed the `transaction` symlink, that made this test start
failing. Fix it by doing `chmod` on `repo/objects`, which is what the
core `ostree_repo_is_writable()` looks at.
I use the trivial httpd server locally. Each time I restart the
server, I end up modifying manually the config file for other repos so
to point to the correct port. In this way I can just re-use the same
port.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
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
For Anaconda, I needed OSTREE_REPO_REMOTE_CHANGE_ADD_IF_NOT_EXISTS,
with the GFile *sysroot argument to avoid ugly hacks. We want to
write the content provided via "ostreesetup" as a remote to the target
chroot only in the case where it isn't provided as part of the tree
content itself.
This is also potentially useful in idempotent systems management tools
like Ansible.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741577
This creates a archive-z2 repo, pull-locals it to bare-user and then
again back to archive-z2 making sure things fsck along the way.
Then it checks out all repos and makes sure each one reproduces
the same result.
Unfortunately we can't install this as a real test because
it doesn't work in the test-runner because tmpfs doesn't support
user xattrs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741125
This just does whatever test-basic.sh does, but on a bare-user
repo.
This works standalone, but unfortunately it breaks in
gnome-desktop-testing-runner as /tmp doesn't support
xattrs, so it is not installed atm.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741125
Use the pattern:
$PRETTY_NAME [$COMMIT_VERSION] (ostree[:$OSNAME][:$DEPLOYMENT_INDEX])
$OSNAME is only shown if there are multiple values.
$COMMIT_VERSION refers to the version tag in the commit's metadata.
$DEPLOYMENT_INDEX is only shown if no $COMMIT_VERSION is available.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739416
fixes a coredump when using a command like:
$ ostree --repo=repo checkout -U --subpath=/usr/lib/passwd \
fedora-atomic/rawhide/x86_64/docker-host usrlib-new
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
For Anaconda, we have an ugly bootstrapping problem where we need to
add the remote to the repository's config, then do a pull+deploy, then
remove and re-add the config, because /etc/ostree/remotes.d doesn't
exist yet in the target system.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738698
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.
Some operating systems may come with external tools for subscription
management that drive access to the content. In that case, the origin
file may not be useful (for example, it could refer to an installer
ISO).
This patch will allow OS installers to inject that state, with a
useful error message, directing the system administrator to an
external tool.
See: https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/issues/31https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737686
Recursive over ostree and all subcommands, and check that --help
is supported, properly outputs to standard out, and exits
with a 0 exit status. Check that for commands with subcommands,
they produce the help output to standard error when run with no arguments.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737194
Previously, in the case where a parent directory of a modified config
file was removed, we would throw an exception. This happens when
switching from a tree that has some software (e.g. firewalld), to one
that does not.
While it's nice to have this warning that your config file probably no
longer applies, there's no need to make it so...fatal.
It's particularly problematic that the only easy workaround is to
remove the config files from your current tree - which breaks
rollback.
The solution then is for for us to take ownership of the parent
directories too into the new /etc. Admins can clean up these files
afterwards at any time.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734293
While looking to fix a different bug here, I found the current
state of things where we had a mix of fd-relative API versus not
frustrating.
Change the code around to consistently use *at, and also add some more
tests.
For Fedora and potentially other distributions which use globally
distributed mirrors, metalink is a popular solution to redirect
clients to a dynamic set of mirrors.
In order to make metalink work though, it needs *one* file which can
be checksummed. (Well, potentially we could explode all refs into the
metalink.xml, but that would be a lot more invasive, and a bit weird
as we'd end up checksumming the checksum file).
This commit adds a new command:
$ ostree summary -u
To regenerate the summary file. Can only be run by one process at a
time.
After that's done, the metalink can be generated based on it, and the
client fetch code will parse and load it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729585
Changes the pull API to allow pulling only a single directory instead
of the whole deployment. This option is utilized by the check-diff
option in rpm-ostree.
Add a new state directory to hold <checksum>.commitpartial files, so
we know that we've only downloaded partial state.
If we deployed a new tree inside an existing OS, inheriting kernel
args, we need to use append() instead of replace() to avoid collapsing
multiply specified kernel arguments like console=/dev/foo
console=/dev/bar.
Reported-by: Dusty Mabe <dusty@dustymabe.com>
The user might "ostree ls /usr/bin/bash/blah", which previously would
segfault.
A somewhat related future enhancement here would be for "ostree ls" to
follow symbolic links.
Reported-by: Dusty Mabe <dustymabe@gmail.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733476
This patch adds a function that will parse a partial checksum when
resolving a refspec. If the inputted refspec matches a truncated
existing checksum, it will return that checksum to be parsed. If
multiple truncated checksums match the partial refspec, it is not
unique and will return false. This addition is inspired by the same
functionality in Docker, which allows a user to reference a specific
commit without typing the entire checksum.
partial checksums: Add function to abstract comparison
This modifies the list_objects and list_objects_at functions
to take an additional argument for the string that a commit starts
with. If this string arg is not null, it will only list commit
objects beginning with that string. This allows for a new function
ostree_repo_list_commit_objects_starting_with to pass a partial string
and return a list of all matching commits. This improves on the
previous strategy of listing refs because it will list all commit objects,
even ones in past history. This update also includes bugfixes on
error handling and string comparison, and changes the output structure
of resolve_partial_checksum. The new strcuture will no longer return FALSE
without error. Also, the hashtable foreach now uses iter. Also
includes modified test file
There's several use cases for calling into ostree itself to do
mirroring, instead of using bare rsync. For example, it's a bit more
efficient as it doesn't require syncing the objects/ directory.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728351
If fetching GPG-signed commits over plain HTTP, a MitM attacker can
fill up the drive of targets by simply returning an enormous stream
for the commit object.
Related to this, an attacker can also cause OSTree to perform large
memory allocations by returning enormous GVariants in the metadata.
This helps close that attack by limiting all metadata objects to 10
MiB, so the initial fetch will be truncated.
But now the attack is only slightly more difficult as the attacker
will have to return a correctly formed commit object, then return a
large stream of < 10 MiB dirmeta/dirtree objects.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725921
I was getting a weird hang in the installed tests with the shell as a
zombie process, not reaped by the parent, which was just stuck in
select() on the output pipes. The thing is we don't actually want to
capture stdout/stderr, we just want to inherit.
GSystem.Subprocess makes that possible, so let's just use it now that
it's a proper installed library.
We don't want to allow MITM attackers to intercept upgrade requests
and provide clients with older OS versions vulnerable to security
flaws.
Only "ostree admin upgrade" gets this behavior for now - whether we
want to do it for "ostree admin switch" is another question.
These GPG tests were failing for me on EL7 - it appears to be because
we had only one directory for both private and public keys, and we
were giving that to ostree for verification, which passed them onto
gpgv.
In EL7 beta at least, gpgv now barfs if it finds a private key where
it is just expecting to find public keys.
Fix this by splitting out the public trusted directory from the
private key directory. Except now for signing, we still need the
public key there, so symlink it. Whee!
This has a very basic level of functionality (deltas can be generated,
and applied offline). There is only some stubbed out pull code to
fetch them via HTTP.
But, better to commit this now and improve it from a known starting
point, rather than have it languish in a branch.
This test had some nondeterminism because we chose a random
object to corrupt, but because there were multiple commits, it
was possible that we chose an object that was not being pulled.
Fix this by writing some custom GJS code to find an explicitly random
object that exists in a given ref, an change a random byte offset.
This adds a lot more randomness to the testing too.
The "ordered hash" code was really just for kernel arguments. And it
turns out it needs to be a multihash (for e.g. multiple console=
arguments).
So turn the OstreeOrderedHash into OstreeKernelArgs, and move the bits
to split key=value and such into there.
Now we're not making this public API yet - the public OstreeSysroot
just takes char **kargs. To facilitate code reuse between ostree/ and
libostree/, make it a noinst libtool library. It'll be duplicated in
the binary and library, but that's OK for now. We can investigate
making OstreeKernelArgs public later.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721136
The test-admin-deploy-1 was copied into -uboot at some point. But
really they should be testing exactly the same thing, except for
the bootloader backend.
Unify these tests by extracting a common test core.
The official way to add bootloader arguments to the current deployment
is to redeploy with --karg. However, doing so tripped up an
optimization made inside the deployment code to just swap the
bootlinks if we're keeping the same "bootcsum".
Change this optimization to look at the pair of (bootcsum, options).
This large patch moves the core xattr logic down into libgsystem,
which allows the gs_shutil_cp_a() API to copy them. In turn, this
allows us to just use that API instead of rolling our own recursive
copy here.
As noted in the new comment though, one case that we are explicitly
regressing is where the new /etc removes a parent directory that's
needed by a modified file. This seems unlikely for most vendors now,
but let's do that as a separate bug.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711058
Several APIs in libostree were moved there from the commandline code,
and have hardcoded g_print() for progress and notifications. This
isn't useful for people who want to write PackageKit backends, custom
GUIs and the like.
From what I can tell, there isn't really a winning precedent in GLib
for progress notifications.
PackageKit has the model where the source has GObject properties that
change as async ops execute, which isn't bad...but I'd like something
a bit more general where say you can have multiple outstanding async
ops and sensibly track their state.
So, OstreeAsyncProgress is basically a threadsafe property bag with a
change notification signal.
Use this new API to move the GSConsole usage (i.e. g_print()) out from
libostree/ and into ostree/.
Add a --generate-sizes option to commit to add size information to the
commit metadata. This will be used by higher level code which wants
to determine the total size necessary for downloading.
We need to use the full shutil_rm_rf() in order to actually delete
complete directories.
Test suite code based on a patch from Sjoerd Simons <sjored@luon.net>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710097
Adapted from Google protobufs. For several cases, we want to support
e.g. file sizes up to guint64, but paying the cost of 8 bytes for each
number is too high.
This will be used for static deltas and sizes metadata.
This commit changes the sysroot API so that one can create arbitrary
new deployment checkouts, then commit them as one step. This is to
enable things like an automatic bisection tool which say create 50
deployments at once, then when done clean them up.
This also moves some printfs from the library into src/ostree.
This uses gpgv for verification against DATADIR/ostree/pubring.gpg by
default. The keyring can be overridden by specifying OSTREE_GPG_HOME.
Add a unit test for commit signing with gpg key and verifying on pull;
to implement this we ship a test GPG key generated with no password
for Ostree Tester <test@test.com>.
Change all of the existing tests to disable GPG verification.
Add an optional dependency on gpgme to add GPG signatures into the
detached metadata, with the key "ostree.gpgsigs", as an "aay", an
array of signatures (treated as binary data).
The commit command gains a --gpg-sign=<key-id> argument. Also add an
argument --gpg-homedir to set the GPG homedir where we look for
keyrings.
commit 08b873457 ("deploy: Remove checksum from generated loader entries")
changed the generated loader entries file names thus making the U-Boot test
case to fail since this test parsed those files.
Fix test-admin-deploy-uboot.sh by looking to the updated files names.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708511
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
If we had two deployments with different boot checksums, and were
trying to remove the one that was the same and add a new one (the
normal case), we'd end up assuming due to comparison with 0 that
we only needed to do the fast subbootversion swap.
Fix this by actually putting 1 where we really mean 1.
And update the tests to verify the fix; I have double-verified by
undoing the fix, and noting that the test fails.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708351
The actual deployment checksum shouldn't be in there, because we may
just swap bootlinks, rendering the name of the old bootloader entry
file invalid. Thankfully nothing actually parsed the names of these
files, so let's just use the index.
OSTree now supports a backend for the U-Boot bootloader,
add a test case for this.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708069
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
Currently OSTree supports two bootloader backends: syslinux
and U-Boot; allow to create a stub configuration for both.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708069
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
libtest.sh has an setup_os_repository() helper function tha is
used by many tests to setup an OSTree initial repository.
This function creates an syslinux configuration unconditionally
but OSTree supports other bootloader backends besides syslinux.
So, is better to conditionally create a syslinux configuration
only when it is needed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708069
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
Previously I thought we'd have to ditch the current commit
format to avoid a{sv} due to
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673012
But I realized that we don't really have to care about
unpacking/repacking commit objects, so let's just re-expose the
existing metadata a{sv} in commits in the API.
Also, add support for "detached" metadata that can be updated at any
time post-commit. This is specifically designed for GPG signatures.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707379
Use a consistent temporary filename to download uri's.
Check for downloaded files before fetching from uri.
Download to hash.part file, then copy/move to hash.done when complete.
Add argument support to setup_fake_remote_repo1 function.
Add test for pull resume.
To implement this, pass --force-range-requests into the trivial-httpd,
which will only serve half of the objects to clients at a time.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706344
Before, we were writing the "bootversion", which is either 0 or 1, for
all entries. This is completely wrong; the idea of the "version"
field is to compare between entries.
Fix this by writing out the inverted index - internally, index 0 is
the *first* boot entry, so we give it the highest version number, and
index N is the last, so give it version 0.
Then fix the deployment sorting code to correctly reverse the version
number comparison, so we read back the right order.
In practice before this bug didn't matter because "normally" you only
have at most two deployments.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706546
When running the test-admin-deploy-1.sh unit test,
cat shows the following error:
cat: boot/vmlinuz-3-6.0: No such file or directory
due a trivial typo in the kernel image file name.
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706371
We'll always have "bare" mode for keeping files-as-hardlinks as root.
But "archive" was my second attempt at a format for non-root file
storage, used by the gnome-ostree buildsystem which runs as non-root.
It was really handy to have a "tar" like mode where I can create
tarballs as a user, that contain files owned by root for example.
The "archive" mode stored content files as two pieces in the
filesystem; ".file" contained metadata, and ".filecontent" was the
actual content, uncompressed. The nice thing about this was that to
check out a tree as non-root, you could just hardlink into the repo.
However, archive was fairly bad for serving via HTTP; it required
*two* HTTP requests per content object, greatly magnifing the already
inefficient fetch process. So "archive-z2" was introduced.
To allow gnome-ostree to still check out trees as a user, the
"uncompressed-object-cache" was introduced, and that's how things have
been working for a while.
So we should just be able to kill this code. Specifically note just
how much better the stage_object() function became.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706057
While the actual commit object format is presently the same, for a
number of reasons we'd like to change it fairly radically. Among
other things, we need to drop our a{sv} types in objects, to protect
against GVariant changing format.
Since now gnome-ostree now longer uses related objects, and nothing
ever used metadata, just drop them both.
We may revive this later, but commits in their current form aren't
very useful for humans to read, so it doesn't make sense to have a
tool to show a history of useless stuff.
More interesting things are diffs between commits, object statistics,
etc.
Otherwise it's really easy to keep accumulating deployments. Also, we
may want to run this after rebooting, so we're back down to one
operating system.
While the first was useful way back in the day when we were importing
Debian bits and /sbin/init was expecting to find /dev/.initctl as a
named pipe, that's no longer an issue with systemd since it uses
dynamic Unix sockets.
Likewise, character and block devices in /dev are now dynamically
created by the devtmpfs from the kernel.
Less complexity and code here if we just support directories, regular
files, and symbolic links.
Colin Walters
Giuseppe Scrivano
Jasper St. Pierre
Matthew Barnes
Dan Nicholson
Sam Thursfield
Daniel Drake
Alexander Larsson
Owen W. Taylor
Anne LoVerso
Roddy Shuler
Daniel Narvaez
Jeremy Whiting
Javier Martinez Canillas
Jeremy Whiting
Stef Walter