saperant/ostree-pitti-workstation

Fedora minimal sway developer desktop OSTree

Martin Pitt's desktop

This is an rpm-ostree based minimal Fedora developer desktop with the sway window manager and podman/toolbox for doing development and running less common graphical applications.

It gets automatically built every week and published to my server.

To use it from an existing OSTree based system like Fedora CoreOS or Fedora Silverblue, add my server URL as new remote and rebase your tree to it:

sudo ostree remote add --no-gpg-verify piware https://piware.de/ostree/pitti-workstation/
sudo rpm-ostree rebase piware:pitti-desktop

After that, you can install weekly updates with

sudo rpm-ostree upgrade

If anything goes wrong, you can go back to the previous version with sudo rpm-ostree rollback.

Original README for workstation-ostree-config

Manifests for rpm-ostree based Fedora variants

This is the configuration needed to create rpm-ostree based variants of Fedora. Each variant is described in a YAML treefile which is then used by rpm-ostree to compose an ostree commit with the package requested.

In the Fedora infrastructure, this happens via pungi with Lorax (templates).

Fedora Silverblue

• Website: https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/ (sources)
• Documentation: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/ (sources)
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker/issues

Fedora Kinoite

• Website: https://kinoite.fedoraproject.org/ (sources)
• Documentation: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-kinoite/ (sources)
• Issue tracker: https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issues

Building

Instructions to perform a local build of Silverblue:

# Clone the config
git clone https://pagure.io/workstation-ostree-config && cd workstation-ostree-config

# Prepare repo & cache
mkdir -p repo cache && ostree --repo=repo init --mode=archive

# Build (compose) the variant of your choice
sudo rpm-ostree compose tree --repo=repo --cachedir=cache fedora-silverblue.yaml

# Update summary file
ostree summary --repo=repo --update

Testing

Instructions to test the resulting build:

• First, serve the ostree repo using an HTTP server.
• Then, on an already installed Silverblue system:

# Add an ostree remote
sudo ostree remote add testremote http://<IP_ADDRESS>/repo

# Pin the currently deployed (and probably working) version
sudo ostree admin pin 0

# List refs from variant remote
sudo ostree remote refs testremote

# Switch to your variant
sudo rpm-ostree rebase testremote:fedora/35/x86_64/silverblue

Historical references

Building and testing instructions:

• https://dustymabe.com/2017/10/05/setting-up-an-atomic-host-build-server/
• https://dustymabe.com/2017/08/08/how-do-we-create-ostree-repos-and-artifacts-in-fedora/
• https://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2017/12/compose-custom-ostree/
• https://www.projectatomic.io/docs/compose-your-own-tree/

For some background, see:

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/AtomicWorkstation
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WorkstationOstree
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Silverblue
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Fedora_Kinoite

Note also this repo obsoletes https://pagure.io/atomic-ws