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minus-squaree8d79@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-213 days ago What if I want to install a package that isn’t already installed and isn’t available as a Flatpak/Snap? Then you just layer it.
minus-squareFizzyOrange@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agoInteresting, so that’s sort of customising the image somehow? Does it use an overlay FS or something?
minus-squaree8d79@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agoThe silverblue docs explain it best: When a package is installed with rpm-ostree, a new OS image is composed by adding the RPM payload to the existing OS image, and creating a new, combined image.
Then you just layer it.
Interesting, so that’s sort of customising the image somehow? Does it use an overlay FS or something?
The silverblue docs explain it best: