Pine

Alpine Linux on OSTree.

Install

flash pulls the latest image from github and dumps it on the on specified device.

wget https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/untoreh/pine/flash.sh -qO - | sh -s -- /dev/vda

Environment variables can be used:

• IFACE,ADDRESS,GATEWAY,NETMASK for network configuration
• PARTS comma separated list of partition sizes, eg 2G,256M

if partitions are specified no filesystems are created on them, otherwise a default configuration of 5G,128M

Server

serve re-sets up a tz2 ostree repo from built image and starts the server to allow ostree clients to update to the latest version.

Usage

run rebuilds the tree committing it to the previos gh image.

Github Releases

A rolling image containing the latest 3 months builds, and a static-delta artifact to be applied on top of the commit of the previous image, which means deltas have to be applied in order if a deployment lags behind, generated by build-update.

Utils

build and delta scripts in the init folder were previously wrongly used to setup github releases but don't contemplate continuitity. They are still useful for creating from-scratch images and one-shot deltas.

TODO

• Switch from xfs as base FS to either f2fs or just ext4. The choice should toward the more stable filesystem such that a newer image can be mounted on older kernels (this is not the case for XFS).
• Remove the 24M swap partition since it is useless, enable zswap by default once alpine includes it in the default kernel config.
• uproot vars and make them configurable
• make the packed extras optional