Fedora CoreOS Config

Base manifest configuration for Fedora CoreOS.

Use https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler to build it.

Discussions in https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/server/coreos. Bug tracking and feature requests at https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker.

About this repo

There is one branch for each stream. The default branch is testing-devel, on which all development happens. See the design and tooling docs for more information about streams.

All file changes in testing-devel are propagated to other branches (to bodhi-updates through config-bot, and to testing through usual promotion), with the following exceptions:

• manifest.yaml: contains the stream "identity", such as the ref, additional commit metadata, and yum input repos.
• lockfiles (manifest-lock.* files): lockfiles are imported from bodhi-updates to testing-devel. Overrides (manifest-lock.overrides.*) are manually curated.

Layout

We intend for Fedora CoreOS to be used directly for a wide variety of use cases. However, we also want to support "custom" derivatives such as Fedora Silverblue, etc. Hence the configuration in this repository is split up into reusable "layers" and components on the rpm-ostree side.

To derive from this repository, the recommendation is to add it as a git submodule. Then create your own manifest.yaml which does include: fedora-coreos-config/ignition-and-ostree.yaml for example. You will also want to create an overlay.d and symlink in components in this repository's `overlay.d.

Overriding packages

By default, all packages for FCOS come from the stable Fedora repos. However, it is sometimes necessary to either hold back some packages, or pull in fixes ahead of Bodhi. To add such overrides, one needs to add the packages to manifest-lock.overrides.$basearch.yaml. E.g.:

packages:
  # document reason here and link to any Bodhi update
  foobar:
    evra: 1.2.3-1.fc31.x86_64

Whenever possible, in the case of pulling in a newer package, it is important that the package be submitted as an update to Bodhi so that we don't have to carry the override forever.

Once an override PR is merged, coreos-koji-tagger will automatically tag overridden packages into the pool.

Adding packages to the OS

Since testing-devel is directly promoted to testing, it must always be in a known state. The way we enforce this is by requiring all packages to have a corresponding entry in the lockfile.

Therefore, to add new packages to the OS, one must also add the corresponding entries in the lockfiles:

• for packages which should follow Bodhi updates, place them in manifest-lock.$basearch.json
• for packages which should remain pinned, place them in manifest-lock.overrides.$basearch.yaml

There will be better tooling to come to enable this, though one easy way to do this is for now:

• add packages to the correct YAML manifest
• run cosa fetch --update-lockfile
• commit only the new package entries

Moving to a new major version (N) of Fedora

Updating this repo:

1. bump releasever in manifest.yaml
2. update the repos in manifest.yaml if needed
3. run cosa fetch --update-lockfile
4. PR the result

Update server changes:

1. Set a new update barrier for N-2 on all streams. See discussion.

CoreOS Installer changes:

1. Update CoreOS Installer to know about the signing key used for the future new major version of Fedora (N+1). Note that the signing keys for N+1 won't get created until releng branches and rawhide becomes N+1.

Release engineering changes:

1. verify that the f${releasever}-coreos-signing-pending Koji tag has been created (this should have already been done by releng scripts on branching)
2. koji untag N-2 packages from the pool (at some point we'll have GC in place to do this for us, but for now we must remember to do this manually or otherwise distRepo will fail once the signed packages are GC'ed). For example:
   • koji list-tagged coreos-pool --quiet | grep fc30 | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort | uniq
   • Sanity-check the output, then pipe it to xargs koji untag-build coreos-pool