I haven’t had time to fully digest this, but it’s interesting!
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In my opinion it is a big fail for the entire industry to think about a Linux distribution as a fixed set of RPMs and SRPMs on a DVD(or the iso image). I understand where it comes from, but it is a fail anyway.
I think this helps articulate one of the ways rpm-ostree is important.[1] This provides a different and continuous[2] “set”, which theoretically can be tracked back through the build system to expose the whole web — complex, but describable.
Two things will make this even better:
- Branching to CentOS Stream and RHEL in a way that preserves Fedora history
- Using source git, which extends traceability into each packages’ upstream source history.
Reproducable builds might fit into this somewhere, too — there’s a session at Flock!
Which relates to Objective Review: Immutable variants are the majority of Fedora Linux in use ↩︎
well, at least, step-wise ↩︎