ostree-pin

Summary

A small utility to "pin" the current ostree deployment. eg useful on Fedora Silverblue for preserving the current booted deployment image. The idea is to run this before booting into a new staged deployment.

Help

$ ostree-pin --help

Tool to update pinned ostree deployment

Usage: ostree-pin [--version] [-n|--dryrun] [-p|--rollback]

  See https://github.com/juhp/ostree-pin#readme

Available options:
  -h,--help                Show this help text
  --version                Show version
  -n,--dryrun              Dry run
  -p,--rollback            Pin previous (rollback) deployment

Install

Needs the Fedora ostree-devel package (or better ghc-gi-ostree-devel) or libostree-dev (Debian/Ubuntu). Also needs ghc and cabal-install (or stack).

$ cabal install

or from git:

$ stack install

Usage

$ sudo ostree-pin

Sets the current deployment to pinned, and unpins the previously pinned deployment. If more than one deployment was pinned it doesn't touch them.

Contribute

ostree-pin is distributed under the GPL license version 3 or later.

Contributions are welcome at https://github.com/juhp/ostree-pin