Current status of OSTree and its handling RPM scriptlets?
Hi all,
there was an issue (either due a bug or due design) in the past about
RPM OSTree treating %post scriptlets in SPEC file differently than on
Fedora Linux - IIUC the explanation was %post scriptlets were applied on
the server side of the system with RPM OSTree, thus any configuration
changes like switching symlinks with alternatives were not
applied/usable for normal user.
Has it got fixed during the time? Or is there a new technology which
would do the trick for Silverblue and Fedora Linux alike?
Because there is a user which was used to setting NOEXEC on /usr/bin/vi
to prevent running shell from vi as a root when using 'sudo vi' - since
the /usr/bin/vi is shell script now and uses exec to spawn the correct
binary, NOEXEC flags breaks 'sudo vi' completely.
The only possible solution here I see is to use alternatives in %post
scriptlet, but if the situation is the same, the functionality brought
by alternatives (automatic switch from vi -> vim and back if
vim-enhanced is installed without shell restart) won't work in OSTree.
Thank you in advance!
Zdenek
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Zdenek Dohnal
Senior Software Engineer
Red Hat, BRQ-TPBC