Is it possible to create an encapsulated ostree pointing at an http endpoint? (

[cgwalters]

(I'm asking this for someone else)

Such as rpm-ostree compose container-encapsulate --repo=http://localhost:8080/repo/ exampleos/42/x86_64/foo docker://quay.io/foo/bar-base:latest ) or does it need to be executed in a running system with the ostree I want to encapsulate?

[cgwalters]

Not today; you'll need to pull into a temporary local ostree repository, then encapsulate that. i.e.

$ ostree --repo=tmp-repo init --mode=archive # or bare-user would likely work too, different tradeoffs
$ ostree --repo=tmp-repo remote-add upstream http://localhost:8080/repo
$ ostree --repo=tmp-repo pull --mirror upstream exampleos/42/x86_64/foo
$ rpm-ostree compose container-encapsulate --repo=tmp-repo ...

An implementation in rpm-ostree would basically do that; it'd in theory be possible to stream but realistically a nontrivial amount of work for relatively low benefit (IMO).

(Wait I just noticed...if the repository is really on localhost why are you not passing the filesystem path directly?)

[oglok]

Thanks for the answer. I understand the benefit might not be too high.
Passing the path of the container's filesystem work! Thank you!