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GrabbenD / ostree-utility

Helper script to easily install and upgrade the system via containers and OSTree in Arch Linux
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/etc merge? #1

Closed wegel closed 1 year ago

wegel commented 1 year ago

First of all, this is pretty awesome. Playing with it is fun ;)

I was wondering why the --no-merge in ostree.sh? Without it (eg, enabling /etc merge), one could make changes to config files in /etc (for example, /etc/{passwd,group,sudoers} and /etc/NetworkManager/*), and have those changes available accross deployments.

Thanks for an awesome project!

GrabbenD commented 1 year ago

I'm glad you like it!

I've updated the README with my vision for this project which should answer your question :)

Your usecase is valid though, I added a option to make it possible (upgrade --merge)

wegel commented 1 year ago

Thank you, that answers it indeed, I'll use --merge on my deployments personally, as my goal is to have a reproducible os that can be deployed on any of my machines, but still have per-machine configuration. I could manage /etc separately I guess (using git or something like that), but considering that OSTree already manages /etc, it feels like the correct place for now.

I'll keep playing with this for for sure; I already have it deployed on a laptop that I use semi-regularly to play with it.

Thanks again!