Re: privileged helper to pull ostree repos

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, at 07:08 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote:
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> * We need to copy the remote config, because the remote configuration
> is not inherited from the parent repo. It looks to me like the code
> supported this once upon a time, but this has bit-rotted. Are you
> interested in re-instating this?

Yeah, makes sense.

> * There is some magic knowledge about the repo format when the summary
> cache is copied to the summary file location. Kinda ugly, but works.

The GPG issues are interesting.  Are you thinking that adding a key would
be a privileged op too?

> 3) We have to create a temporary remote to pull in the final results
> into the real repo. It would be nice if we could pull from the "real"
> remote, but supply a custom url for that particular pull operation.
> Then we didn't have to do that.

One thing I've been thinking about adding is support for "alternates"
like https://git-scm.com/docs/gitrepository-layout
I think this use case could fit into it?