Re: Experience report: OSTree in our build system

["Colin Walters" <walters verbum org>]

Sorry this one got stuck in moderation for so long!  Please do send from the list member address, because the 
moderator queue is 95% spam and I keep forgetting to look at it.  (The mailman thing where it mails you once 
a day every day is super annoying too)

On Fri, May 29, 2020, at 6:45 AM, David Rothlisberger wrote:
> Traditional build systems like Make or Ninja can specify a dependency on
> a file, but not on a whole tree. In our company's build system we commit
> every intermediate build target to OSTree, and this gives our build
> rules the ability to depend on an entire tree (directory). We do this by
> creating an OSTree ref, and listing the ref itself (i.e. the file in
> ostree/refs/heads/...) as a dependency of the build rule.
>
> I have written this up in more detail here:
> https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/821367/c05df51aafbaa821/

Thanks so much for writing this up!  Very cool.