On Wed, Nov 24, 2021, at 1:26 AM, Robin Lee wrote: > > This function is unrelated to 'rpm' but unfortunately provided by > 'rpm-ostree'. > Maybe we should provide another standalone tool so non-rpm/dnf-based > distributions can be easier to deploy.
No, all the "ostree-container" logic lives in https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree-rs-ext/ which as with the rest of ostree (and like podman/docker), has no dependency on rpm/dpkg/whatever and never will. You can put whatever you want in it and build however you want. If you look at the PR to rpm-ostree which added this functionality (this all exists today btw!) https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/pull/3139/files#diff-2e9d962a08321605940b5a657135052fbcef87b5e360662bb527c96d9a615542R56 you can see how rpm-ostree just picked up the ostree-ext changes as a library. (While this is only somewhat related to your point, I think it is very interesting and important to note that a big part of this proposal is that we now easily expose the ability to inject non-RPM content into derived images and boot and upgrade them via rpm-ostree, so that's a "less RPM involved" angle) ostree-ext also exposes a CLI, but see also https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/issues/2480 That said, it is certainly true that ostree is more of a low level library and most of our effort is on rpm-ostree. Eventually perhaps it may make sense to have at least a polished shared CLI/daemon code upstream in ostree that gets shared more across distributions, but there's nontrivial logistical/political/technical aspects to that. It's perhaps somewhat analogous to librpm versus dnf/zypper. Also omitted from this is that my job also involves making all this work really well in OpenShift/Kubernetes in addition to this change (which is basically just talking about "single node"/"baseos" functionality that applies to non-Kubernetes Fedora cases too). So juggling those two has taken most of my personal time versus polishing the "ostree but not rpm-ostree" case. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
