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# rpm-ostree Overview
New! See the docs online at [Read The Docs (rpm-ostree)](https://rpm-ostree.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ )
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rpm-ostree is a hybrid image/package system. It uses
[OSTree](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/OSTree) as an image format,
and uses RPM as a component model.
The project aims to bring together a hybrid of image-like upgrade
features (reliable replication, atomicity), with package-like
flexibility (introspecting trees to find package sets, package
layering, partial live updates).
**Features:**
- Atomic upgrades and rollback for host system updates
- A server side tool to consume RPMs and commit them to an OSTree repository
- A system daemon to consume ostree commits as updates
Projects using rpm-ostree
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[Project Atomic](http://www.projectatomic.io/) uses rpm-ostree to
provide a minimal host for Docker formatted Linux containers.
Replicating a base immutable OS, then using Docker for applications.
Building
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Releases are available as GPG signed git tags, and most recent
versions support extended validation using
[git-evtag](https://github.com/cgwalters/git-evtag).
However, in order to build from a git clone, you must update the
submodules. If you're packaging and want a tarball, I recommend using
a "recursive git archive" script. There are several available online;
[this code](https://git.gnome.org/browse/ostree/tree/packaging/Makefile.dist-packaging#n11)
in OSTree is an example.
Once you have a git clone or recursive archive, building is the
same as almost every autotools project:
```
env NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=...
make
make install DESTDIR=/path/to/dest
```
More documentation
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New! See the docs online at [Read The Docs (OSTree)](https://ostree.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ )
Some more information is available on the old wiki page:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/OSTree
Contributing
------------
See [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md).