POC: use bootc for isos and image-based updates#808
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So I posted this PR into the https://github.com/bootcrew discord, and @jumpyvi landed a sysupdate banger that's way more mature than this, as they noted in #793 |
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Upside is more of the work gets moved onto podman and image-builder. Downside is it's not 100% ubuntu/debian ready yet IMO.
The flow becomes in pseudocode:
podman build ContainerfileCreate image. Build shenanigans are moved to Containerfilepodman run ghcr.io/osbuild/image-builder-cli:latest --type bootc-generic-isoBuild ISO from image. Installer would need to runbootc install to-disk- big change I know.podman push ghcr.io/elementary/os:latestPush image to registry so all existing ElementaryOS installs cansudo bootc update(settings app would need to be adapted), even over versions 8=>9=>10 just like Bazzite upgrades between Fedora major versionsDownsides are:
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Builds image-mode elementary OS for image-based updates and isos with CNCF bootc technology. Addresses #724 et al