Jonathan Lebon

@Mershl Would you like to pick up https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/pull/2097 and brush it off?

Check out https://coreos.github.io/rpm-ostree/HACKING/#using-gdb-with-the-rpm-ostree-daemon for how to use gdb on rpm-ostree.

> Hence, today we default to installing weak dependencies. I think for ABI reasons we'll need to continue to do so Can you expand on this? If an application has...

@heyakyra You can try using `rpm-ostree override remove libreswan`. There may be other dependencies it pulls in that you'll need to remove as well.

> Thanks for the tip, but it says it is not found: Ahh right, it's an overlay. Hmm, if NetworkManager-l2tp did something more like `Recommends: libreswan or strongswan` then it'd...

Something that gets us 95% of the way there is to have cosa also generate a `repo-packages` entry with all the packages. Those will override any `repo-packages` in the manifest...

> Something that gets us 95% of the way there is to have cosa also generate a `repo-packages` entry with all the packages. Did that in https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/pull/2954. > I think...

Strawman: Add new `sysroot.toplevel-dirs` knob of type string list. Teach libostree to read this knob and create the toplevel dirs whenever a new deployment is created. With a read-only sysroot...

https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree/pull/2681 adds support for top-level symlinks. https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-config/pull/1879 adds support for top-level symlinks on first boot configured via Ignition.

Yup, the approach supports directories and it wouldn't be hard to add them. The reason I didn't for now is that it's harder to support in the downstreams I work...