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* Know what a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink metalink] is | * Know what a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink metalink] is | ||
* Learn about [[MirrorManager]] and how the Fedora Project uses it | * Learn about [[MirrorManager]] and how the Fedora Project uses it | ||
= ostree command usage = | |||
The `ostree summary` command runs on ostree repositories. The `rpm-ostree compose tree` command can be used to capture a set of RPMs as ostree repository commits. In order to create an ostree repository locally, you can run `mkdir REPO && ostree --repo=REPO init --mode=archive-z2`, where REPO is the desired path of the repository. This command will set up the proper file structure for a new ostree repository. | |||
'''Note:''' `ostree` and `rpm-ostree` are two different commands. This can be confusing. `rpm-ostree` is only available in the F21 repos at the time of this writing. Therefore, if you're going to work with ostree, it's probably best to use an F21 machine. | |||
= Compose script operations = | = Compose script operations = | ||
Revision as of 19:12, 14 October 2014
This page documents how Atomic images are generated, updated, etc. to provide a better understanding for Cloud WG members. This is a work in progress, as many changes discussed below are noted as not having been implemented yet.
Educate yourself
- Know what Project Atomic is and what the Fedora Project is doing with it
- Know what a metalink is
- Learn about MirrorManager and how the Fedora Project uses it
ostree command usage
The ostree summary command runs on ostree repositories. The rpm-ostree compose tree command can be used to capture a set of RPMs as ostree repository commits. In order to create an ostree repository locally, you can run mkdir REPO && ostree --repo=REPO init --mode=archive-z2, where REPO is the desired path of the repository. This command will set up the proper file structure for a new ostree repository.
Note: ostree and rpm-ostree are two different commands. This can be confusing. rpm-ostree is only available in the F21 repos at the time of this writing. Therefore, if you're going to work with ostree, it's probably best to use an F21 machine.
Compose script operations
Scripts that compose images need to be updated to generate the files required by Atomic. Releng scripts "buildbranched" and "buildrawhide" need to be updated with Atomic code, similar to "run-pungi". All of these scripts need to run ostree summary -u to generate ostree summary files for each compose.
Image (qcow2) generation
The Atomic cloud images are built using ImageFactory, which calls into Anaconda using a kickstart file. The kickstart file refers to the tree composed above (just like how with mainline packages, the kickstart file points to yum repositories).
The kickstart files for Atomic are located here: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-atomic/
MirrorManager operations
Normally, MirrorManager crawls directories looking for repositories. In that case, repositories are identified by their repomd.xml file. The info contained in that file is used to build the metalinks. However, for atomic images, we don't care about repomd.xml files. Future patches to MirrorManager will need to look for an ostree repo with a summary file instead.
MirrorManager's "mirrorlist_server.py" file needs to be updated to generate a metalink to the summary file generated by the compose scripts.