bin VS apt2ostree

Compare bin vs apt2ostree and see what are their differences.

bin

Effortless binary manager (by marcosnils)

apt2ostree

Build ostree images based on Debian/Ubuntu (by stb-tester)
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bin

Posts with mentions or reviews of bin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-24.

apt2ostree

Posts with mentions or reviews of apt2ostree. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-11.
  • Why Use Make
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2023
    Hm yes now I remember that point about how the data is anonymous Python objects that you can pass around to functions.

    Are there any open source examples? I looked around the github account, but I mostly remember this tool

    https://github.com/stb-tester/apt2ostree

    I'd be interested in seeing the Python config and Ninja output, to see how it works. Right now it looks to me like the dependencies are more implicit than explicit, e.g. with your copen example

    ---

    The system I ended up with is more like Bazel, but it's not building containers, so it's a slightly different problem. But I'm interested in building containers incrementally without 'docker build'.

    I like the apt lockfile idea definitely ... However I also have a bunch of other blobs and tarballs, that I might not want to check into git. I guess you just put those in OSTree?

    Our config looks like this

    https://github.com/oilshell/oil/blob/master/core/NINJA_subgr...

    And all the code is in build/ninja* of the same repo

  • An ode to Flatpak (and Fedora Silverblue)
    6 projects | /r/linux | 21 Aug 2022
    However, you can get pretty close yourself with a tool like this https://github.com/stb-tester/apt2ostree
  • Docker containers usually still reachable even if bound to 127.0.0.1
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2022
    With apt2ostree[1] we use lockfiles to allow us to version control the exact versions that were used to build a container. This makes updating the versions explicit and controlled, and building the containers functionally reproducible - albeit not byte-for-byte reproducible.

    [1]: https://github.com/stb-tester/apt2ostree#lockfiles

  • Reproducible builds for Debian: a big step forward
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2021
    On the subject of reproducible debian-based environments I wrote apt2ostree[1]. It applies the cargo/npm lockfile idea to debian rootfs images. From a list of packages we perform dependency resolution and generate a "lockfile" that contains the complete list of all packages, their versions and their SHAs. You can commit this lockfile to git.

    You can then install Debian or Ubuntu into a chroot just based on this lockfile and end up with a functionally reproducible result. It won't be completely byte identical as your SSH keys, machine-id, etc. will be different between installations, but you'll always end up with the same packages and package versions installed for a given lockfile.

    This has saved us on a few occasions where an apt upgrade had broken the workflow of some of our customers. We could see exactly which package versions changed in git history and roll-back the problematic package before working on fixing it properly. This is vastly better than the traditional `RUN apt-get install -y blah blah` you see in `Dockerfile`s.

    IMO it's also more convenient than debootstrap as you don't need to worry about gpg keys, etc. when building the image. Dependency resolution and gpg key stuff is done at lockfile generation time, so the installation process can be much simpler. In theory it could be made such that only dpkg is required to do the install, rather than the whole of apt, but that's by-the-by.

    apt2ostree itself is probably not interesting to most people as it depends on ostree and ninja but I think the lockfile concept as applied to debian repos could be of much broader interest.

    [1]: https://github.com/stb-tester/apt2ostree#lockfiles

    [2]: https://ostreedev.github.io/ostree/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bin and apt2ostree you can also consider the following projects:

ostree - Operating system and container binary deployment and upgrades

stew - 🥘 An independent package manager for compiled binaries.

PrivateBin - A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.

hastebin - open source pastebin written in node.js

eget - Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub.

Paste

chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source

singularity - SingularityCE is the Community Edition of Singularity, an open source container platform designed to be simple, fast, and secure.

bk-fig-phillips - A Makefile to extract figures from _Beekeeping_ by Everett Franklin Phillips, Ph.D.

knit - A simple and flexible build tool using Lua, similar to make/mk.

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