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2 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
4 <maintainer type="person">
5 <email>zmedico@gentoo.org</email>
6 <name>Zac Medico</name>
8 <longdescription lang="en">
9 This project is now known as "libostree", though it is
10 still appropriate to use the previous name: "OSTree" (or
11 "ostree"). The focus is on projects which use libostree's
12 shared library, rather than users directly invoking the command
13 line tools (except for build systems). However, in most of
14 the rest of the documentation, we will use the term "OSTree",
15 since it's slightly shorter, and changing all documentation
16 at once is impractical. We expect to transition to the new
19 As implied above, libostree is both a shared library and suite
20 of command line tools that combines a "git-like" model for
21 committing and downloading bootable filesystem trees, along
22 with a layer for deploying them and managing the bootloader
25 The core OSTree model is like git in that it checksums
26 individual files and has a content-addressed-object
27 store. It's unlike git in that it "checks out" the files
28 via hardlinks, and they thus need to be immutable to prevent
29 corruption. Therefore, another way to think of OSTree is that
30 it's just a more polished version of Linux VServer hardlinks.
33 <flag name="archive">Use libarchive</flag>
34 <flag name="dracut">Install dracut module</flag>
35 <flag name="grub">Enable grub configuration generator</flag>
36 <flag name="http2">Use http2</flag>
37 <flag name="httpd">Enable ostree trivial-httpd entrypoint</flag>
38 <flag name="libmount">Use libmount</flag>
39 <flag name="soup">Use libsoup for networking</flag>
42 <remote-id type="github">ostreedev/ostree</remote-id>