Re: [atomic-devel] DBus and rpm-ostree

[Stef Walter <stefw redhat com>]

On 14.02.2015 01:34, Peter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking into adding DBus support for the functionality provided by
> rpm-ostree, allowing OS updates to be managed via a DBus API.
> 
> Assuming this is this something we need and want to support, my first
> question is where should this live, I'm thinking is this could be part
> of the rpm-ostree repo. It would add a daemon (rpm-ostreed?) and the
> rpm-ostree command(s) would become a client for the dbus api.
> 
> But there are other ways we could go too, I'm also not sure how the
> atomic aliases would tie into this or if that effects how the service
> should be named and where it lives.

I looked at the implementation and the 'atomic' command just runs
'rpm-ostree' with some arguments. So if we make the 'rpm-ostree' tool
act the same way it does now (albeit calling through DBus) then it
shouldn't affect 'atomic' at all.

Stef