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This will allow the text to be used in Wikipedia for example; it
also just makes more sense for documentation than the LGPLv2+.
Closes: #1431Closes: #1432
Approved by: jlebon
Much like the (optional) initramfs at
`/usr/lib/ostree-boot/initramfs-<SHA256>` or
`/usr/lib/modules/$kver/initramfs` you can now optionally include a
flattened devicetree (.dtb) file alongside the kernel at
`/usr/lib/ostree-boot/devicetree-<SHA256>` or
`/usr/lib/modules/$kver/devicetree`.
This is useful for embedded ARM systems which need the devicetree file
loaded by the bootloader for the kernel to discover and initialise
hardware. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_tree for more
information.
This patch was mostly produced by copy-pasting code for initramfs handling
and renaming `s/initramfs/devicetree/g`. It's not beautiful, but it is
fairly straightforward.
It may be useful to extend device-tree support in a number ways in the
future. Device trees dependant on many details of the hardware they
support. This makes them unlike kernels, which may support many different
hardware variants as long as the instruction-set matches. This means that
a ostree tree created with a device-tree in this manner will only boot on
a single model of hardware. This is sufficient for my purposes, but may
not be for others'.
I've tested this on my NVidia Tegra TK1 device which has u-boot running
in syslinux-compatible mode.
Closes: #1411
Approved by: cgwalters
Follow up to <https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/pull/1079>; I was working on
the rpm-ostree updates for this, and I think it's more consistent if we have
`.img` here, since that's a closer match to the "remove $kver" that results in
`vmlinuz`. Also just best practice to have file suffix types where they make
sense.
The astute reader might notice this sneaks in a change where we'd crash if the
legacy bootdir didn't have an initramfs...yeah, should probably have test
coverage of that.
Closes: #1095
Approved by: jlebon
This is the new Fedora kernel standard layout; it has the advantage
of being in `/usr` like `/usr/lib/ostree-boot`, but it's not OSTree
specific.
Further, I think in practice forcing tree builders to compute the checksum is an
annoying stumbling block; since we already switched to e.g. computing checksums
always when doing pulls, the cost of doing another checksum for the
kernel/initramfs is tiny. The "bootcsum" becomes more of an internal
implementation detail.
Now, there is a transition; my current thought for this is that rpm-ostree will
change to default to injecting into both `/usr/lib/ostree-boot` and
`/usr/lib/modules`, and stop doing `/boot`, then maybe next year say we drop the
`/usr/lib/ostree-boot` by default.
A twist here is that the default Fedora kernel RPM layout (and what's in
rpm-ostree today) includes a kernel but *not* an initramfs in
`/usr/lib/modules`. If we looked only there, we'd just find the kernel. So we
need to look in both, and then special case this - pick the legacy layout if we
have `/usr/lib/modules` but not an initramfs.
While here, rework the code to have an `OstreeKernelLayout` struct which makes
dealing with all of the variables nicer.
Closes: #1079
Approved by: jlebon
The `-z2` is annoying now since it's really a legacy; we've long
since supported typing `archive`. Convert the docs fully and
explain that.
Also do some (but not all) of the tests just to encourage newer tests to use
`archive` too.
Closes: #980
Approved by: jlebon
I never really liked the term "osname". I feel "stateroot" is a *lot* clearer,
since the osname/stateroot mostly just holds `/var`. Further it avoids the `os`
prefix which is already overloaded.
Some of the existing docs already talked about "operating system state", which
further reinforces this.
There's *lot* more things than this which reference the term "osname", but I
don't want to change *everything* yet in this patch in case we decide to do
something different - this just gets the highlights.
Closes: #794
Approved by: jlebon
This could help others who want to integrate with other init
systems/initramfs.
Commit-message-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Closes: #784
Approved by: cgwalters
I think originally I had envisioned this as `ostree.version`, but at the last
minute we changed it to just `version`. That's what all of the code uses, so
let's fix the docs.
Closes: #638
Approved by: paulvt
I was confused while reading the docs how this could work, since in at
least the Fedora/CentOS/RHEL distros, they're named e.g.
initramfs-`uname -r`-$checksum.
Closes: #529
Approved by: cgwalters
Quoting Dan Nicholson in
<https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/pull/330#issuecomment-245499099>
mtime of 0 has been the semantics of ostree deployments from basically
the beginning of the project. We (and others, see
flatpak/flatpak@b5204c9) rely on that fact when generating trees.
In particular, this affects caches that use the mtime of the
associated file or directory to determine if the cache is valid. By
arbitrarily changing the mtime of the files to something else, all
the caches we setup in the build are now invalidated. Preseeding
caches is really important to the user experience as it avoids
having the user wait while they're regenerated on first run.
Now, we could change our build infrastructure to preset all the
mtimes to 1 to match this change, but what does that do for our
existing users who are on an ostree that deploys with mtimes of 0?
We could just revert this change at Endless (and the associated one
in Flatpak), and that would be fine for our users. However, if we
point non-Endless users to our apps, they'll have the great
experience of waiting 10 seconds the first time they launch it while
the fontconfig cache is rebuilt unnecessarily.
Closes: #495
Approved by: jlebon
In particular, NixOS has changed somewhat, and Conda is worth
looking at. Also it seems reasonable to mention rpm-ostree /
Gnome Continuous.
Closes: #331
Approved by: cgwalters
1 is a better choice than 0 because some programs use 0
as a special value; for example, GNU Tar warns of an
"implausibly old timestamp" with 0.
Closes: #330
Approved by: cgwalters
A few links in the docs had the Markdown syntax swapped like:
(link title)[link url]
Just cleaned up those. Verified via `mkdocs serve`
Closes: #297
Approved by: cgwalters
Just keeping my promise to write more documentation. There could be a
lot more to write here, but I'm trying to get a start done.
Closes: #222
Approved by: jlebon
I'd like to encourage people to make OSTree-managed systems more
strictly read-only in multiple places. Ideally everywhere is
read-only normally besides `/var/`, `/tmp/`, and `/run`.
`/boot` is a good example of something to make readonly. Particularly
now that there's work on the `admin unlock` verb, we need to protect
the system better against things like `rpm -Uvh kernel.rpm` because
the RPM-packaged kernel won't understand how to do OSTree right.
In order to make this work of course, we *do* need to remount `/boot`
as writable when we're doing an upgrade that changes the kernel
configuration. So the strategy is to detect whether it's read-only,
and if so, temporarily mount read-write, then remount read-only when
the upgrade is done.
We can generalize this in the future to also do `/etc` (and possibly
`/sysroot/ostree/` although that gets tricky).
One detail: In order to detect "is this path a mountpoint" is
nontrivial - I looked at copying the systemd code, but the right place
is to use `libmount` anyways.
This content currently lives here:
<https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/OSTree/RelatedProjects>. Moving it
into the manual in Markdown:
- Makes it look better
- It's more useful alongside the rest of the docs
- Is much less crummy in general than the GNOME wiki
I was going through the new version of the docs and noticed a few
problems. Mostly URLs that aren't linked, extra whitespace, and a few
mis-spellings.
I ran the files through `aspell check` and made some manual changes
myself.
These changes were tested locally with `mkdocs serve`
I don't much like Docbook (and am considering converting the man pages
too), but let's start with the manual.
I looked at various documentation generators (there are a lot), and
I had a few requirements:
- Markdown
- Packaged in Fedora
- Suitable for upload to a static webserver
`mkdocs` seems to fit the bill.
