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Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 8, 2022 18:35 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Distributors entering Flatpakland by jafd
Parent article: Distributors entering Flatpakland

> So, this is like old packages but not quite like old packages? Can't it also use a normal packaging format internally?

It's atypical but feasible and Fedora has it's own Flatpaks sourced from RPMs that is independent of Flathub. Refer to https://src.fedoraproject.org/projects/flatpaks/

Ostree, the underlying storage format used by Flatpak has support for OCI containers as well, refer to https://coreos.github.io/rpm-ostree/container/

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Posted Jul 9, 2022 9:03 UTC (Sat) by GvMariani (subscriber, #7320) [Link] (1 responses)

> https://src.fedoraproject.org/projects/flatpaks/
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Posted Jul 9, 2022 14:58 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Looks copy/paste missed a char, here you go:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/projects/flatpaks/%2A

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Posted Jul 9, 2022 15:25 UTC (Sat) by jafd (subscriber, #129642) [Link] (2 responses)

Yeah, but what are the runtimes themselves made of? LFS? Some RPM/deb-based collection of software? How do I repackage runtimes?

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Posted Jul 9, 2022 16:32 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

> Yeah, but what are the runtimes themselves made of? LFS? Some RPM/deb-based collection of software? How do I repackage runtimes?

I would start here: https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk

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Posted Jul 11, 2022 20:53 UTC (Mon) by bartoc (guest, #124262) [Link]

The runtimes themselves are some container image format, usually ostree, but fedora uses OCI in some cases. The packages do tend to come from the normal packaging ecosystem of whatever distro provides it. I think the freedesktop sdk might use yocto.