This is a variant of the efforts in https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/pull/741
Working on `rpm-ostree livefs`, I realized though I needed to just
check out *new* files directly into the live `/etc` (and possibly
delete obsolete files).
The way the current `/etc` merge works is fundamentally different from
that. So my plan currently is to probably do something like:
- Compute diff
- Check out each *new* file individually (as a copy)
- Optionally delete obsolete files
Also, a few other things become more important - in the current deploy code, we
copy all of the files, then relabel them. But we shouldn't expose to *live*
systems the race conditions of doing that, plus we should only relabel files we
checked out.
By converting the deploy's /etc code to use this, we fix the same TODO item
there around atomically having the label set up as we create files. And further,
if we kill the `/var` relabeling which I think is unnecessary since Anaconda
does it, we could delete large chunks of code there.
In the implementation, there are two types of things: regular files, and
symlinks. For regular files, in the `O_TMPFILE` case, we have the ability to
do *everything* atomically (including SELinux labeling) before linking it into
place. So let's just use that. For symlinks, we use `setfscreatecon()`.
Closes: #797
Approved by: jlebon
Colin Walters
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