Remove rpm depency from packagesystem! - #1130
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hello can someone help me, because tests not working |
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Hello, its anyone here? |
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Is there anyone here? |
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Hi @krolmiki2011. We have reduced capacity for going through From a very brief glance, why keep the legacy code files? Investigating the failing CI will take a more thorough investigation, but it does seem related to these changes. Are we maybe missing something to filter out only bootloader components here? |
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One more point, though again it may just require a deeper look from my part, but #468 (comment) would lead me to believe this should be possible without making changes to files other than |
Okay, so I view this notebook as a place to keep things in case the code turns into spaghetti, but also as something to delete once the code is stable. Regarding your second question—a good point—I noticed that BIOS and Legacy EFI (OSTree boot) both use RPM; while BIOS is handled by |
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So, trying to understand this a bit better, as TBH I'm still learning about We want to make Quick overview of the data that gets stored: ContentMetadata structpub(crate) struct ContentMetadata {
/// The timestamp, which is used to determine update availability
pub(crate) timestamp: DateTime<Utc>,
/// Human readable version number, like ostree it is not ever parsed, just displayed
pub(crate) version: String,
/// Transfer version into Module struct list
pub(crate) versions: Option<Vec<Module>>,
/// The default bootloader to install if at install time no bootloader option is
/// provided
#[cfg(efi_arch)]
pub(crate) default_bootloader: Option<Bootloader>,
}Note that the descriptions for Example bootupd-state.json{
"installed": {
"BIOS": {
"meta": {
"timestamp": "2026-06-09T16:53:24Z",
"version": "grub2-tools-1:2.12-60.fc44.x86_64",
"versions": [
{
"name": "grub2",
"rpm_evr": "1:2.12-60.fc44"
}
]
},
"filetree": null,
"adopted-from": null
},
"EFI": {
"meta": {
"timestamp": "2026-08-13T14:37:10.461466856Z",
"version": "grub2-1:2.12-60.fc44,shim-16.1-5",
"versions": [
{
"name": "grub2",
"rpm_evr": "1:2.12-60.fc44"
},
{
"name": "shim",
"rpm_evr": "16.1-5"
}
]
},
"filetree": {
"children": {
"BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI": {
"source": "shim/16.1-5/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI",
"size": 1026520,
"sha512": "sha512:0dc3725da36f3183b5cb5af0ba982caccc35019b35f8c80ee29545b7f9fa0672aa09aac4f5693f250ca603910aa4249538d45991595cae198f897ee2f406bb27"
},
"BOOT/fbx64.efi": {
"source": "shim/16.1-5/EFI/BOOT/fbx64.efi",
"size": 119280,
"sha512": "sha512:46bf07b2212b2042f2c3eb44b0fc94527443ebd405204fd09014c55b4f3fd5d590007d78a5662f79570cfdb90e5c8ed5d794d7fa85ed8914d4c60b1d6ee9441d"
},
"fedora/BOOTX64.CSV": {
"source": "shim/16.1-5/EFI/fedora/BOOTX64.CSV",
"size": 110,
"sha512": "sha512:0c29b8ae73171ef683ba690069c1bae711e130a084a81169af33a83dfbae4e07d909c2482dbe89a96ab26e171f17c53f1de8cb13d558bc1535412ff8accf253f"
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"fedora/grubx64.efi": {
"source": "grub2/1:2.12-60.fc44/EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi",
"size": 4145576,
"sha512": "sha512:1f86c5f4824cf292a9e36314186309977a8d92834c48b70ac128f7ec2289a544acddce16ea1b7d2457426cdd2fd5dfc65beab727f171c2fe443f8fc4ba19d684"
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"source": "shim/16.1-5/EFI/fedora/mmx64.efi",
"size": 874352,
"sha512": "sha512:d63aafcab70aeedcf1e083fda32130d9ba997ad04f8466c0d058f5d364a48d554b7160c0a4f17441f19797d39dfd785516078d3bd841714df2c2aa3327f3fa9f"
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"source": "shim/16.1-5/EFI/fedora/shim.efi",
"size": 1026520,
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"source": "shim/16.1-5/EFI/fedora/shimx64.efi",
"size": 1026520,
"sha512": "sha512:0dc3725da36f3183b5cb5af0ba982caccc35019b35f8c80ee29545b7f9fa0672aa09aac4f5693f250ca603910aa4249538d45991595cae198f897ee2f406bb27"
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"static-configs": {
"timestamp": "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"version": "0.2.35",
"versions": null
}
}Side note, but this also shows that the timestamps are inconsistent - BIOS is giving the build time of the RPM, whereas EFI (which I guess is using the filetree of This patch is currently changing the approach for BIOS to directly query and parse
Since currently this returns something like For the Worth also noting that the I think the first approach I would have thought of for this is to just parse version outputs from the main package managers (e.g. Another approach that pops to mind is to use something like file hashes for versioning instead. So equal hashes of the file content means no update, not equal means update. That loses downgrade detection, but maybe that's fine for a bootloader updater. The EFI filetree already has hashes for each file, and for BIOS we could just hash the grub binary instead? I'm sure there's issues that I'm not foreseeing with this though. The script approach probably means the least amount of work and changes for And thanks for working on this @krolmiki2011. I'd say let's decide on a solution first before we continue iterating. I'll try to follow up with others to see how to proceed, and maybe bring it up in a community meeting. |
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@Rolv-Apneseth thanks for the reply and comment, and i kinda noticed, that grub2-install --version in fedora is 2.12, so less of topic i made pull request: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2/pull-request/246 to fix version |
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Oh, and i open for another solutions |
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@Rolv-Apneseth I made a script to begin with script is in packagesystem/query_file_owner |
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@Rolv-Apneseth i think i replace rpm with script, what do you think? |
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@Rolv-Apneseth i guess my code is ready to test |
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Test needs to be fixed btw! |
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Thanks for moving to the script approach. I have a couple of notes but WDYT @cgwalters
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I made changes, but i have a question @Rolv-Apneseth , should EFI timestamp be: |
I think it should match whatever's being done for the |
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@Rolv-Apneseth yea, btw i made changes you proposed |
@krolmiki2011 Ok, I wasn't aware of #1075 and https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch. Please restore |
Wait, and bios too? @Rolv-Apneseth |
Just have |
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@Rolv-Apneseth tests works |
Fantastic. From my point of view the only (major) thing left would be cleaning up all commits into 1 or maybe 2 commits since we don't use squash commits (don't have the context on why). I would really like at least 1 other review on here though (@Johan-Liebert1 maybe) since this is a big PR. There may be some concerns about making the name+version space-separated, but I think it's the way to go as otherwise we can't (AFAICT) reliably determine where package name ends and version starts when parsing something like Worth noting that this also addresses one of the fixes mentioned in #1073
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Overall logic looks okay. Could really help with tests for other distros as well
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| rpm -q --qf '%{NAME} %{EVR}\n' -f "$FILE" |
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Again let's keep the current semantics of name-evr? Is there a reason why you removed the -?
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This was discussed above - space-separated so we can actually parse out the package name vs version in something like grub2-efi-x64-1:2.06-95.fc38.x86_64. I don't know if it's safe to just split on - and split on : to find the first component which has only numbers and ., but that seems fragile. Also, previous - splitting logic was truncating package names. #1130 (comment)
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Okay, this makes sense. I'm not a 100% sure about this. If we're changing this anyway, maybe we could take a more structured approach where the script returns some sort of structured data, maybe json. Don't think this is a huge deal, but it feels like we're splitting the work 50-50 between the scripts and bootupd
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I don't know how complex it would be to get JSON output from all of these package managers, but that doesn't sound easy. Splitting on whitespace just seemed like the way to go so it's easy to implement getting the expected output while keeping it simple for us to parse out name+version.
What kind of tests did you have in mind? Containers run in CI that check script output? |
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Ok. Yeah that's a good idea. Let's decide if we're keeping the script(s) first I guess. Also @krolmiki2011 I realised that Alpine probably doesn't have |
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Ownership scripts and installation Makefile, packagesystem/*, contrib/packaging/bootupd.spec, README-devel.md |
Package ownership lookup supports apk, dpkg, pacman, and rpm. Installation selects one script through PACKAGESYSTEM and places it at the standard sysroot path. |
Runtime metadata flow src/packagesystem.rs, src/efi.rs, src/ostreeutil.rs, Cargo.toml |
EFI metadata uses NAME VERSION entries. Parsing accepts the new format and legacy RPM metadata. Serialization remains compatible with rpm_evr. Direct RPM database discovery and the optional rpm-version dependency are removed. |
Validation and CI updates .cci.jenkinsfile, tests/e2e-update/e2e-update-in-vm.sh, tests/kola/test-bootupd, src/model.rs |
Tests expect the space-separated metadata format. Compatibility tests cover serialization and legacy comparisons. CI runs plain cargo test. |
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The change can break Debian installation, Alpine-based builds, and potentially RPM package creation because several packaging commands and source-file assumptions remain incompatible with supported environments. Merge should wait until these bounded packaging issues are corrected or explicitly accepted by the owners.
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participant bootupd
participant query_file_owner
participant rpm
bootupd->>query_file_owner: invoke with EFI file paths
query_file_owner->>rpm: query file ownership and version
rpm-->>query_file_owner: return package name and EVR
query_file_owner-->>bootupd: return NAME VERSION lines
bootupd->>bootupd: parse and compare package metadata
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- Around line 28-37: The PACKAGESYSTEM selector used by the install and
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- Around line 20-28: Update query_files to capture each apk info -W invocation’s
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The commit messages could really use some context. Maybe some context on why some changes were made so that others reading the commits can also chime in.
Also, probably worth splitting into multiple prep commits as currently each commit covers a lot of ground and not focused on one particular change
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Okay why its still processing updates? |
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Seems like misbehaving CI, don't worry about it. We need @Johan-Liebert1 to agree to the space-separated approach (or proceed with the structured output discussion above) before proceeding with this PR. Once we have that, we probably want, as previously mentioned, some CI to actually validate the scripts are returning output formatted like we're expecting. Finally, we'll need to clean up the commits here. I'm thinking probably 1 commit, since I'm not sure we can break this up while still having something we can run. A suggestion for the message:
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I'm okay with this approach, just wanted to know the reasoning. I should've been clearer when resolving comments The main issue remaining in this PR, imo, is/are the commits. We need them to be more descriptive on why certain design choices were made and if there are any implications wrt to said choices. Ex 56b4ec9 commit message is extremely vauge and probably could be separated out into two - one for the scripts and other for the rust side. If they're interlinked (which I think they are), then the message lacks that description |
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I would do everything here in just 1 commit personally. Nothing here would run as it's own commit so I don't really think it makes sense to split them. Implication for the space-separated choice (for the current version comparisons we do) is that any old metadata would be slightly different and would therefore be marked as needing an update (IIUC). I assume this is fine since we'll presumably be moving away from version comparisons anyway in #1137 right? |
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57-57: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winInclude the ownership helpers in the Cargo source archive.
Cargo.tomlrestricts the package to["src", "LICENSE", "Makefile", "systemd", "build.rs"], sopackagesystem/query-file-owner-rpmis absent from%{crates_source}.Makefileinvokes that helper during%make_install, which causes the RPM build to fail before%filesprocessing. Addpackagesystemtoinclude.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Thanks to these changes, it will be possible to eliminate the rpm dependency from bootupd and become more distribution-independent!
KEY CHANGES:
BIOS:
In the case of BIOS, ContentMetadata is created just as it is for UEFI; for BIOS,
grub2-install --versionand themtimeare used.EFI (ostree-boot):
The situation is similar for ostree-boot in BIOS mode, except it iterates through files, and the version format is: legacy-ostree-boot-{mtime}
NOTE:
The old code, before the modification, is in the {bios, efi, packagesystem}_legacy.rs
Oh, and 'grub2-install --version' need package maintainers to patch grub2 upstream version to package version
This patch was inspired by issue: #468