[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#824649: ostree: document how to prepare and update a .deb-based system root

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Mon Aug 27 20:39:46 BST 2018


On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 at 20:21:11 +0200, Felix Krull wrote:
> Has there been any progress on this?

The bug is tagged "help" because the maintainer does not know how to
test this. If you can help to document how, please do, but the bug is not
going to progress without someone's help.

> I have one question about the description: The ostree-boot.control file states
> that "the root filesystem must be one that dracut can mount without a root=
> command-line argument". Unless I'm misunderstanding it, this doesn't seem to be
> correct (any more)? In my tests, I've happily booted VMs from MBR disks with
> LVM2 root partitions.

I think that was true at some point. If it is no longer true I'm happy
to remove that statement; you almost certainly know better than I do!

    smcv



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