Re: [atomic-devel] Can we use CentOS Atomic ostree-rpm in offline/local upgrade mode?

[Jason Brooks <jbrooks redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Smithian" <joe smithian gmail com>
> To: "Jason Brooks" <jbrooks redhat com>
> Cc: atomic-devel projectatomic io
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 12:42:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [atomic-devel] Can we use CentOS Atomic ostree-rpm in offline/local upgrade mode?
> 
> Thanks Jason for your comments. We don't want to run a web server on the
> target machine. Is there a way to upgrade without a web server?

Maybe -- this is how the updates are provided by the projects, so this is 
how I've always consumed them. It would make sense for there to be a way
to point at the location of the repo in a directory or something, but I
haven't done it.

Colin Walters will know if/how.

Jason

> 
> Regards,
> Joe
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Jason Brooks <jbrooks redhat com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Joe Smithian" <joe smithian gmail com>
> > > To: atomic-devel projectatomic io
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 7:49:17 AM
> > > Subject: [atomic-devel] Can we use CentOS Atomic ostree-rpm in
> > offline/local  upgrade mode?
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am interested in using CentOS atomic for its virtualization, softwsre
> > > upgrade and roll back support and few other nice features. I am wondering
> > > if we can use ostree-rm in offline/local mode to upgrade OS with NO
> > online
> > > access.
> > >
> > > I want to initially install CentOS Atomic from a set of known RPM
> > packages
> > > then upgrade it in the filed by copying a copy of new OS image to the
> > box,
> > > and upgrading it locally with no online access. Is this possible? How?
> > any
> > > document how to use ostree in offline/local mode?
> >
> > You could compose a tree, then sync it to something like a basic web server
> > container running on the to-be-upgraded host itself, and then upgrade,
> > while
> > offline, from that web container.
> >
> > This "compose your own" doc works a bit like that:
> >
> > http://www.projectatomic.io/docs/compose-your-own-tree/
> >
> > Line 63 in the script[1] we use for building the centos atomic host shows
> > the
> > repo-syncing bit:
> >
> > [1]
> >
> >
> > https://github.com/CentOS/sig-atomic-buildscripts/blob/downstream/build_ostree_components.sh
> >
> >
> > Regards, Jason
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> >
>