The current "transaction" symlink was introduced to fix issues with
interrupted pulls; normally we assume that if we have a metadata
object, we also have all objects to which it refers.
There used to be a "summary" which had all the available refs, but I
deleted it because it wasn't really used, and was still racy despite
the transaction bits.
We still want the pull process to use the transaction link, so don't
delete the APIs, just relax the restriction on object writing, and
introduce a new ostree_repo_set_ref_immediate().
For many OS install scenarios, one runs through an installer which may
come with embedded data, and then the OS is configured post-install to
receive updates.
In this model, it'd be nice to avoid the post-install having to rewrite
the /ostree/repo/config file.
Additionally, it feels weird for admins to interact with "/ostree" -
let's make the system feel more like Unix and have our important
configuration in /etc.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729343
It's better if this is independent from the OstreeSysroot; for
example, a policy is active in a given deployment root at once, not
for a sysroot globally.
We can also collect SELinux-related API in one place.
Unfortunately at the moment there can be only one instance of this
class per process.
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 will be used by guestmount - it's WAY faster. We only take disks
as a unit, so it's safe. If the process fails halfway through, we
just start over from scratch the next time anyways.
The trees as shipped come with /usr/etc, which should just be labeled
as usr_t. When we do a deployment, we need to relabel the copies of
the files we're making in /etc.
SELinux support is compile and runtime optional.
We can't use #ifdef in the headers, since then g-ir-scanner won't pick
up the functions (unless we included config.h). Let's instead always
have the symbols, but just set an error if we were built without
support for it, just like how pull works.
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.
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.
read_commit resolves the ref to a commit, and a lot of consumers want
the resolved commit for their own purposes; this prevents them from
calling resolve_rev themselves.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707727
We want an OstreeRepoFile to be the way to reference a "filesystem
tree" that's stored in the repo, which is a combination of a DIR_TREE
and a DIR_META. The idea is that once you write an mtree to the repo
using ostree_repo_write_mtree, it becomes serialized and you get an
OstreeRepoFile in return.
Change any APIs that care about DIR_TREE / DIR_META checksums to care
about OstreeRepoFiles instead, which right now is mostly is
ostree_repo_write_commit.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707727
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
Rather than having separate write_ref calls, make clients start a
transaction, add some refs, and then commit it. While this doesn't
make it 100% atomic, it makes it easier for us to use an atomic
model, and it means we don't do as much I/O updating the summary
file and such.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707644
An earlier version of this API acted like git in that some objects
would be staged in a temporary directory which would be then committed
in one go by moving files around. The API doesn't match most users
expectations though, as while the stage is nice as a high-level API
it isn't really suited for low-level APIs.
While the stage was removed, the APIs were never renamed. Rename
them now so that they match expectations.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707644
It turns out every builtin (with one special exception) that takes a
repo argument did the same thing; let's just centralize it. The
special exception was "ostree init --repo=foo" where foo is expected
to *not* actually be a repo. In that case, simply skip the
ostree_repo_check() invocation.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706762
We removed support for writing "related objects" from ostree commits
in ostree git c9b61cbfee because it just
didn't work out as an idea. This also removes the API and code from
"ostree pull".
Note there was no test suite coverage.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706342
The way we recurse into subdirectories in parallel makes it far too
easy to hit up against the arbitrary Linux fd limit of 1024.
Since the fix here is about dropping parallelism, let's just go all
the way for now and make a plain old synchronous API =(
This does simplify both internal callers which wanted a sync API
anyways.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706380
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
We have APIs to load metadata as variants, and files as parsed
content/info/xattrs, but for some cases such as static deltas, all we
want is to operate on all objects in their canonical representation.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706031
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.
Colin Walters
Jeremy Whiting
Jasper St. Pierre