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Re:OSTree – Robust OS upgrades for Linux by shykes on Monday August 26, 2013 @05:49PM (#6280139)
> you can easily just systemd-nspawn /ostree/deploy/debian/90cd266 and boot the same OS as a container

Perhaps we should be looking at integrating ostree and docker then? :)

> I'd like to push hard to integrate with package systems.

How would that integration work exactly?

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Re:OSTree – Robust OS upgrades for Linux by colinwalters on Monday August 26, 2013 @06:20PM (#6280277)
> Perhaps we should be looking at integrating ostree and docker then? :)

It might make sense for docker to be able to store containers as OSTree commits in addition to tarfiles. But I haven't used it myself. On the HTTP side, OSTree may be less efficient or more efficient than what docker does on the wire for updates; I don't know. Static deltas will help significantly.

> How would that integration work exactly?

This section describes it very briefly: https://people.gnome.org/~walters/ostree/doc/adapting-packag...

Basically this is something you can do on a build server or on a client.

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