On 04/04/2018 12:22 PM, Sinny Kumari wrote: > >> * ksinny get answer to "is there a plan to have a local RPM repo where I >> can put custom or downloaded rpms for installation with rpm-ostree ?" > > I'm not sure what exactly the question is. This operation is very much similar > to how you would do this on a non-Atomic system today. > > >> It was more of the question of having per-available Local repo so that >> user doesn't have to perform following steps you mentioned below :) >> They can just add their local rpms to the pre-available local repo and >> perform rpm-ostree install pkg.
This is local package installation from a file? `rpm-ostree install /path/to/file.rpm` should work. Am I missing something? > > - download rpms to local directory > - run createrepo > - serve that directory over http(s) > - add yum repo file into /etc/yum.repos.d/ > > Now you can rpm-ostree install 'pkg' and it will look at all enabled repos. > > >> There were two more questions which I parsed later from meeting logs, >> couldn't action them with my slow typing :) > >> 1. Any plans to make /etc stateless? Let's say I stupidly rm -rf /etc . if >> /etc were stateless, that wouldn't be an issue because nothing too critical >> would be kept there no plans other than some discussion in an upstream issue: https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/issues/702 >> 2. I had to add a "custom" rpm to enable firmware for my laptop. Is there >> any work toward enabling /usr/local/lib/firmware to work? >> This document explains more. >> https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/html/2017/12/23/using_b43_firmware_on_fedora_atomic_workstation.html >> . Currently Fedora only accepts /lib/firmware Which of course is read only >> on atomic I'm not really sure why /usr/local/lib/firmware isn't used by Fedora. Maybe we can have someone from the kernel team comment. Added cc to Laura Abbott to see if she knows why. Dusty
