Remove rpm depency from packagesystem! - #1130
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hello can someone help me, because tests not working |
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Hello, its anyone here? |
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Hello? |
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Is there anyone here? |
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Hi @krolmiki2011. We have reduced capacity for going through From a very brief glance, why keep the legacy code files? Investigating the failing CI will take a more thorough investigation, but it does seem related to these changes. Are we maybe missing something to filter out only bootloader components here? |
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One more point, though again it may just require a deeper look from my part, but #468 (comment) would lead me to believe this should be possible without making changes to files other than |
Okay, so I view this notebook as a place to keep things in case the code turns into spaghetti, but also as something to delete once the code is stable. Regarding your second question—a good point—I noticed that BIOS and Legacy EFI (OSTree boot) both use RPM; while BIOS is handled by |
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So, trying to understand this a bit better, as TBH I'm still learning about We want to make Quick overview of the data that gets stored: ContentMetadata structpub(crate) struct ContentMetadata {
/// The timestamp, which is used to determine update availability
pub(crate) timestamp: DateTime<Utc>,
/// Human readable version number, like ostree it is not ever parsed, just displayed
pub(crate) version: String,
/// Transfer version into Module struct list
pub(crate) versions: Option<Vec<Module>>,
/// The default bootloader to install if at install time no bootloader option is
/// provided
#[cfg(efi_arch)]
pub(crate) default_bootloader: Option<Bootloader>,
}Note that the descriptions for Example bootupd-state.json{
"installed": {
"BIOS": {
"meta": {
"timestamp": "2026-06-09T16:53:24Z",
"version": "grub2-tools-1:2.12-60.fc44.x86_64",
"versions": [
{
"name": "grub2",
"rpm_evr": "1:2.12-60.fc44"
}
]
},
"filetree": null,
"adopted-from": null
},
"EFI": {
"meta": {
"timestamp": "2026-08-13T14:37:10.461466856Z",
"version": "grub2-1:2.12-60.fc44,shim-16.1-5",
"versions": [
{
"name": "grub2",
"rpm_evr": "1:2.12-60.fc44"
},
{
"name": "shim",
"rpm_evr": "16.1-5"
}
]
},
"filetree": {
"children": {
"BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI": {
"source": "shim/16.1-5/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI",
"size": 1026520,
"sha512": "sha512:0dc3725da36f3183b5cb5af0ba982caccc35019b35f8c80ee29545b7f9fa0672aa09aac4f5693f250ca603910aa4249538d45991595cae198f897ee2f406bb27"
},
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"source": "shim/16.1-5/EFI/BOOT/fbx64.efi",
"size": 119280,
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},
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"source": "shim/16.1-5/EFI/fedora/BOOTX64.CSV",
"size": 110,
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"source": "grub2/1:2.12-60.fc44/EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi",
"size": 4145576,
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"size": 1026520,
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"static-configs": {
"timestamp": "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"version": "0.2.35",
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}Side note, but this also shows that the timestamps are inconsistent - BIOS is giving the build time of the RPM, whereas EFI (which I guess is using the filetree of This patch is currently changing the approach for BIOS to directly query and parse
Since currently this returns something like For the Worth also noting that the I think the first approach I would have thought of for this is to just parse version outputs from the main package managers (e.g. Another approach that pops to mind is to use something like file hashes for versioning instead. So equal hashes of the file content means no update, not equal means update. That loses downgrade detection, but maybe that's fine for a bootloader updater. The EFI filetree already has hashes for each file, and for BIOS we could just hash the grub binary instead? I'm sure there's issues that I'm not foreseeing with this though. The script approach probably means the least amount of work and changes for And thanks for working on this @krolmiki2011. I'd say let's decide on a solution first before we continue iterating. I'll try to follow up with others to see how to proceed, and maybe bring it up in a community meeting. |
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@Rolv-Apneseth thanks for the reply and comment, and i kinda noticed, that grub2-install --version in fedora is 2.12, so less of topic i made pull request: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2/pull-request/246 to fix version |
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Oh, and i open for another solutions |
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@Rolv-Apneseth I made a script to begin with script is in packagesystem/query_file_owner |
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@Rolv-Apneseth i think i replace rpm with script, what do you think? |
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@Rolv-Apneseth i guess my code is ready to test |
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Test needs to be fixed btw! |
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Thanks for moving to the script approach. I have a couple of notes but WDYT @cgwalters
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I made changes, but i have a question @Rolv-Apneseth , should EFI timestamp be: |
I think it should match whatever's being done for the |
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@Rolv-Apneseth yea, btw i made changes you proposed |
@krolmiki2011 Ok, I wasn't aware of #1075 and https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch. Please restore |
Wait, and bios too? @Rolv-Apneseth |
Just have |
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Maybe just add the empty |
Thats why i added earlier |
Fair enough, didn't realise that was why |
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Now lets see is this gonna work |
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Query File Script works in test |
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@Rolv-Apneseth i think i mess up in e2e test scripts |
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and i mess up |
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At lleast bootc worked |
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Not sure it's your fault, though I'm not sure why it doesn't already happen on main, but it seems like some kind of race condition: Could you try apply this patch and we'll see if that prevents it: diff --git a/tests/e2e-update/e2e-update.sh b/tests/e2e-update/e2e-update.sh
index 07c6da00..9efa583c 100755
--- a/tests/e2e-update/e2e-update.sh
+++ b/tests/e2e-update/e2e-update.sh
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enabled: true
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[Unit]
+ Before=bootloader-update.service
RequiresMountsFor=/run/testtmp
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Okay i applied |
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@Rolv-Apneseth it failed again |
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I find the issue |
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E2E PASSED |
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Kola left |
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@Rolv-Apneseth tests works |
Fantastic. From my point of view the only (major) thing left would be cleaning up all commits into 1 or maybe 2 commits since we don't use squash commits (don't have the context on why). I would really like at least 1 other review on here though (@Johan-Liebert1 maybe) since this is a big PR. There may be some concerns about making the name+version space-separated, but I think it's the way to go as otherwise we can't (AFAICT) reliably determine where package name ends and version starts when parsing something like Worth noting that this also addresses one of the fixes mentioned in #1073
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Overall logic looks okay. Could really help with tests for other distros as well
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These scripts perform 80% of the same operations. It's probably cleaner to have one file with some switch cases. Can be a followup
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On second thoughts, can we have this in bootupd itself? We can always check os-release and switch commands. I don't have a strong opinion on this, @Rolv-Apneseth do you?
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No not really. As I mentioned in #1130 (comment), that would have been my first approach. @cgwalters suggested a script in the discussion over in #468, and confirmed it in #468 (comment), so that's what was done here.
The multiple scripts vs 1 was to avoid command -v on every command, where presumably the packagers know exactly what packaging system they're prepping bootupd for so they can just pick the correct one. Don't have a strong opinion on that either though.
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In favour of the scripts, it's a lot easier for someone to adjust the script for a package system we don't have covered here than it would be if it was in Rust code. One line change if modifying one of these reference scripts.
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Another point in favour of separate scripts is the Alpine comment I made below - there may be subtle adjustments needed for each distro.
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Not "rpm" evr anymore with this change. Should probably just change this to "evr" and add serde aliases
| /// Each line contains one package with two space-separated values: NAME and VERSION. | ||
| /// The format depends on the package manager (rpm, dpkg, pacman, etc.): | ||
| fn parse_package_metadata(stdout: &[u8]) -> Result<ContentMetadata> { | ||
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Context on error here would be nice. Also debug log on what we got as the output
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| # Use your package manager to find the package that owns the file | ||
| # Package Manager should return two space-separated values: NAME and VERSION | ||
| rpm -q --qf '%{NAME} %{EVR}\n' -f "$FILE" |
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Again let's keep the current semantics of name-evr? Is there a reason why you removed the -?
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This was discussed above - space-separated so we can actually parse out the package name vs version in something like grub2-efi-x64-1:2.06-95.fc38.x86_64. I don't know if it's safe to just split on - and split on : to find the first component which has only numbers and ., but that seems fragile. Also, previous - splitting logic was truncating package names. #1130 (comment)
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Okay, this makes sense. I'm not a 100% sure about this. If we're changing this anyway, maybe we could take a more structured approach where the script returns some sort of structured data, maybe json. Don't think this is a huge deal, but it feels like we're splitting the work 50-50 between the scripts and bootupd
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I don't know how complex it would be to get JSON output from all of these package managers, but that doesn't sound easy. Splitting on whitespace just seemed like the way to go so it's easy to implement getting the expected output while keeping it simple for us to parse out name+version.
| let (name, _) = name_str.split_once('-').unwrap_or((&name_str, "")); | ||
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| // Format: "NAME VERSION" space-separated (e.g., "grub2 1:2.06-110.el9" from rpm) | ||
| let (name, evr) = pkg.split_once(' ').unwrap_or((pkg, "")); |
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this should be a hard error if we don't find the version
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I guess the earlier version did the same thing which is incorrect imo
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I tend to agree, but maybe as we move away from versions for comparisons it doesn't matter as much?
What kind of tests did you have in mind? Containers run in CI that check script output? |
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Ok. Yeah that's a good idea. Let's decide if we're keeping the script(s) first I guess. Also @krolmiki2011 I realised that Alpine probably doesn't have |
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Keep the Debian selector and helper name consistent. PACKAGESYSTEM=deb selects or documents query-file-deb, but the repository provides query-file-owner-dpkg; Debian installation therefore fails unless the selector and helper naming are aligned. Update the Makefile mapping and the README examples/lists together.
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In `@Makefile` around lines 28 - 37, The PACKAGESYSTEM selector used by the
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dpkg helper. Update the Makefile’s query-file selection around
query-file-$(PACKAGESYSTEM) so PACKAGESYSTEM=deb resolves to
packagesystem/query-file-owner-dpkg, while preserving direct selectors for other
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Apply the same fix in `@README-devel.md` around lines 36 - 48: The documentation
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Debian dpkg-query -S output multiple packages comma separated dpkg-query -W package argument
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To output a comma-separated list of packages using dpkg-query, you should utilize the --showformat (-f) option combined with the --show (-W) command [1][2][3]. By default, dpkg-query -W outputs one package per line [4][3]. You can override this behavior by defining a custom format string that uses a comma as a separator instead of a newline (\n) [2][3]. Example command: dpkg-query -W -f='${Package},' packagename1 packagename2 If you want to list all installed packages comma-separated, you can omit the specific package arguments and pipe the output to a tool like sed to remove the final trailing comma: dpkg-query -W -f='${Package},' | sed 's/,$//' Explanation of options: - -W, --show: This command lists packages matching the given patterns (or all installed packages if no pattern is provided) [1][4]. - -f, --showformat=format: This allows you to customize the output string [1][2]. You can reference package fields using the syntax ${field}, such as ${Package}, ${Version}, or ${Architecture} [5][3]. - Escapes: The format string supports common escape characters like \n (newline), \r (carriage return), and \t (tab) [2][3]. By using a comma in your format string instead of \n, you create a comma-separated list [2]. Note that dpkg-query natively separates information for each package by a newline in its default behavior [2][4]; the custom format string is the standard way to achieve custom delimiters or machine-readable outputs [2][3].
Citations:
- 1: https://manpages.org/dpkg-query/1
- 2: https://manpages.debian.org/wheezy/dpkg/dpkg-query.1.en.html
- 3: https://askubuntu.com/questions/538261/how-to-tweak-dpkg-l-output
- 4: https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=dpkg-query+-W+%3E+packages
- 5: https://serverfault.com/questions/905928/sortable-list-of-all-packages-dpkg
🌐 Web query:
site:manpages.debian.org dpkg-query dpkg -S "multiple" "comma"
💡 Result:
The dpkg-query command does not use commas to separate multiple package names [1][2]. Instead, multiple packages are specified by listing them as separate, space-separated arguments on the command line [1][3]. For example, to query the status of multiple packages, you would use: dpkg-query -s package1 package2 package3 When multiple package names are provided in this manner, dpkg-query processes them in the order specified and separates the output for each package with an empty line [1][4]. While commas are used in certain Debian configuration files (such as deb-control(5) files) to define dependency relationships or lists [5][6], and some other tools may accept comma-separated inputs (like the debootsnap utility) [7][8], the dpkg-query utility itself expects space-delimited arguments for its operations [1][3].
Citations:
- 1: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/dpkg/dpkg-query.1.en.html
- 2: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/dpkg/dpkg-query.1.en.html
- 3: https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/dpkg/dpkg-query.1.en.html
- 4: https://manpages.debian.org/wheezy/dpkg/dpkg-query.1.en.html
- 5: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/dpkg-dev/deb-control.5.en.html
- 6: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/dpkg-dev/deb-control.5.en.html
- 7: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/devscripts/debootsnap.1.en.html
- 8: https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/devscripts/debootsnap.1.en.html
🌐 Web query:
site:manpages.debian.org/trixie/dpkg dpkg-query -W package-name pattern
💡 Result:
The dpkg-query tool uses the -l or --list action to list packages matching a specified package-name-pattern [1]. The syntax is: dpkg-query -l package-name-pattern... This command supports standard shell-style glob patterns (e.g., using asterisks as wildcards) to filter the list of installed packages [1][2][3]. For example, to list all installed packages that contain the string "vi" in their name, you would use: dpkg-query -l 'vi' Note that if you wish to include non-installed packages that are still present in the available database (e.g., previously purged packages or those whose information is cached), you may need to use the --load-avail option, as dpkg-query does not load the available file by default in modern versions [1][2][3].
Citations:
- 1: https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/dpkg/dpkg.1.en.html
- 2: https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/dpkg/dpkg.1.sv.html
- 3: https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/dpkg/dpkg.1.de.html
🌐 Web query:
Debian dpkg-query --search dpkg -S multiple packages same file output "comma"
💡 Result:
When you use the dpkg-query --search (or -S) command to find which package owns a specific file, the utility automatically handles cases where multiple packages own the same file [1][2]. The output format is explicitly designed to list all such packages on a single line, separated by a comma and a space [1][2]. According to the official documentation, the output format is: pkgname1, pkgname2: pathname For example, if both package1 and package2 provide the same file, the output will appear as [1][2]: package1, package2: /path/to/file You do not need to provide any additional flags or formatting options to achieve this comma-separated list; it is the default behavior of the --search command [1][2]. If you are machine-parsing this output, it is recommended to set the locale to C.UTF-8 to ensure the output remains consistent and reproducible across different environments [2].
Citations:
- 1: https://man.archlinux.org/man/dpkg-query.1.en
- 2: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/dpkg-query.1.html
Parse all dpkg -S owners before querying versions.
For multiple owners, dpkg -S returns pkg1, pkg2: path. Line 18 leaves pkg1, pkg2 as one argument, but dpkg-query -W requires separate package arguments and does not split commas. Split the owner list before querying versions.
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In `@packagesystem/query-file-owner-dpkg` at line 18, Update the package-owner
pipeline around dpkg-query to parse the comma-separated owner list returned by
dpkg -S into individual package names before passing arguments to dpkg-query -W,
while preserving the existing version output format.
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Thanks to these changes, it will be possible to eliminate the rpm dependency from bootupd and become more distribution-independent!
KEY CHANGES:
BIOS:
In the case of BIOS, ContentMetadata is created just as it is for UEFI; for BIOS,
grub2-install --versionand themtimeare used.EFI (ostree-boot):
The situation is similar for ostree-boot in BIOS mode, except it iterates through files, and the version format is: legacy-ostree-boot-{mtime}
NOTE:
The old code, before the modification, is in the {bios, efi, packagesystem}_legacy.rs
Oh, and 'grub2-install --version' need package maintainers to patch grub2 upstream version to package version
This patch was inspired by issue: #468
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