Re: apt2ostree - build ostree images of apt based distributions

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018, at 1:29 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:

> I think multistrap does allow you to run preinst scripts, but it
> actually runs the preinst scripts after installation, ignoring the
> "pre", which is totally not what's supposed to happen, and Debian
> preinst scripts are widely written with the expectation that they run
> before install (as is documented), so that part of multistrap is
> rather broken.

FWIW today, rpm-ostree also changes how RPM scripts are run; we
check out all packages (via hardlinks) and then run scripts, which
is not at all what librpm does.

rpm-ostree almost totally reimplements librpm in a different way.

A bit more info in this thread for example:

http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-ecosystem/2016-August/000391.html