Re: [atomic-devel] Extending Atomic Host and 'rpm-ostree pkg-add'

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh redhat com>]

Seems like a simple fix.  rpm-ostree should be modified to support file
path rpms as well as

rpm repositories.  But will this work on a traditional rpm based system
like RHEL or Fedora

Workstation?


On 11/18/2016 03:35 AM, Jakub Filak wrote:
> I've been playing with privileged containers delivering services for D-Bus
> system bus. These D-Bus services must be enabled by a configuration file
> placed in the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ directory. Therefore my containers must
> install files on Atomic host and this action creates system files not owned
> by any rpm package.
>
> Last week I wrote a script that creates an intermediate rpm package from
> files in the /exports/hostfs/ directory in a container and installs the
> package to a host [0]. Unfortunately, the script uses 'ostree admin unlock'
> before running 'rpm -i ...', so my changes to rpm database disappear with
> reboot. Using 'rpm-ostree pkg-add ...' could make the changes persistent but
> the command does not accept local files.
>
> My question is that will it be possible to install local rpm files via
> 'rpm-ostree pkg-add'?
>
>
>
> Jakub
>
> 0: https://github.com/jfilak/af
>