Re: Remote deployment

[Manuel Stühn <embedded justmail de>]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 02:27:12PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018, at 9:30 AM, Manuel Stühn wrote:
> > Hi,
> > i'm implementing a distributed ostree based deployment. Each location
> > has it own ostree-server and several ostree-clients, but it has no
> > direct connection to the internet, therefore pulling from internet
> > server is not possible.
>
> Yep, makes sense.
>
> > Is ostree able to generate some kind of binary file containing the
> > required diffs to get from one commit to another, which can be
> > transferred to / copied on the ostree-host and then applied to the
> > repository (similar to a git patch)?
>
> This is what `ostree static-delta generate --filename` will do, combined
> with `ostree static-delta apply-offline`.

Thanks a lot! 
I was not aware of the "--filename" option, because I'm using debian 
jessie, which provides ostree version 2016.15 over backports which does 
not offer this feature.

--
Manuel