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<pkgmetadata>
<maintainer type="person">
<email>dan@d3fy.net</email>
<name>Dan Molik</name>
</maintainer>
<longdescription lang="en">
This project is now known as "libostree", though it is still appropriate to
use the previous name: "OSTree" (or "ostree"). The focus is on projects which
use libostree's shared library, rather than users directly invoking the
command line tools (except for build systems). However, in most of the rest of
the documentation, we will use the term "OSTree", since it's slightly shorter,
and changing all documentation at once is impractical. We expect to transition
to the new name over time.
As implied above, libostree is both a shared library and suite of command line
tools that combines a "git-like" model for committing and downloading bootable
filesystem trees, along with a layer for deploying them and managing the
bootloader configuration.
The core OSTree model is like git in that it checksums individual files and
has a content-addressed-object store. It's unlike git in that it "checks out"
the files via hardlinks, and they should thus be immutable. Therefore, another
way to think of OSTree is that it's just a more polished version of Linux
VServer hardlinks.
</longdescription>
<use>
<flag name="gjs">Enable javascript tests</flag>
<flag name="grub">Enable grub configuration building</flag>
<flag name="soup">Use libsoup for networking</flag>
</use>
</pkgmetadata>