Re: About building ostree based Debian derivative

[Dan Nicholson <nicholson endlessm com>]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Kushal Das <kushaldas gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to find out instructions about how to build custom
> Debian derivative which is based on ostree.
>
> The nearest thing I found online is this repo [1], which
> can help to build an ostree repository. But, I could not find any
> other mention of how of how people can build a installable distribution
> out of it.

I think Endless might be the only place where a bootable ostree is
made from Debian packages. See
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/ostree-list/2017-October/msg00008.html
for my latest attempts at making something generic and usable.
Unfortunately, our actual builder has some of our product details tied
up in it (and a bunch of other hardcoded Endless settings), so it's
private. What's on the master branch in
https://github.com/dbnicholson/deb-ostree-builder is a stripped down
version of our actual builder. The simple-builder branch there
attempts to make an ostree purely from debian packages (stretch in
particular). I haven't gotten back to it in a while, though.