Hey Chuck,

I know we talked about this offline and it was also discussed in today’s StarlingX Community meeting …

Just to clarify / add-some-detail to your request … for community understanding …

• ‘apt-ostree’ is sort of a hybrid package manager that allows one to build and manage ostree commits based on DEB PKGs
• You are developing this as part of the FLOCK project team’s work on ‘Software Upgrade/Update Evolution’, see stx 9 feature plan spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aTjYzUkExodfayt-rjTv466jE-DP8b_YjrTHhXW6G9w/edit#gid=1107209846 .
• Your development plans for apt-ostree is to develop this generically (i.e. no starlingx specifics), using the debian apt package manager and debian’s ostree package.
• AND THEN the higher-level StarlingX-specific Software Management code would USE apt-ostree
• As discussed, our long term plans would be to offer/propose this as a debian package to the debian community …. Rather than bury this in starlingx.
• And then we would just include this new debian package in our host packages and use it for starlingx
• In the meantime, you’re proposing that we create an apt-ostree repo in starlingx, as sort of an incubation period … in order to develop apt-ostree and meet stx 9 release schedules.
• With the intent to move it to the debian community later.

Greg.

p.s. I’m a +1 for new short-term apt-ostree repo

From: Short, Charles <Charles.Short@windriver.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 4:08 PM
To: starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io
Subject: [Starlingx-discuss] Apt-ostree repository

Hi,

I been working on a Debian based ostree package management system for the past couple of months. It is similar to how rpm-ostree manages packages with ostree on Fedora. I was wondering if there were any objections to adding the repository to the starlingx namespace on opendev.org?

Thanks

chuck