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override replace --experimental

To improve the experience when overriding packages directly from a RPM repository, rpm-ostree has experimental support for fetching RPMs and overriding them. Full support for this feature is tracked in #1265.

Overriding packages with the versions from a given repo

For this example, we will replace the kernel shipped as part of the base image in Fedora CoreOS with the one provided by the Vanilla Kernel Repositories. This is something useful for example if you want to try reproducing a bug on a recent vanilla Linux kernel to make sure this is not something coming from a Fedora specific patch.

First, we setup the custom RPM repository, in this case for the mainline-wo-mergew repo of the Vanilla Kernel repositories:

$ curl -s https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/kernel-vanilla/mainline-wo-mergew/repo/fedora-rawhide/group_kernel-vanilla-mainline-wo-mergew-fedora-rawhide.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/kernel-vanilla-mainline-wo-mergew.repo

Then we ask rpm-ostree to override the current kernel package with the ones from the repository:

$ sudo rpm-ostree override replace --experimental --freeze --from repo='copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:group_kernel-vanilla:mainline-wo-mergew' kernel kernel-core kernel-modules kernel-modules-core kernel-modules-extra
Inactive base replacements:
  kernel-modules-core-6.2.0-0.rc7.20230208gt0983f6bf.251.vanilla.fc37.x86_64
Checking out tree 8c16620... done
Enabled rpm-md repositories: fedora-cisco-openh264 fedora-modular updates-modular updates fedora copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:group_kernel-vanilla:next copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:group_kernel-vanilla:mainline-wo-mergew coprdep:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:group_kernel-vanilla:fedora coprdep:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:group_kernel-vanilla:stable-rc coprdep:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:group_kernel-vanilla:stable updates-archive
Importing rpm-md... done
rpm-md repo 'fedora-cisco-openh264' (cached); generated: 2022-10-06T11:01:40Z solvables: 4
rpm-md repo 'fedora-modular' (cached); generated: 2022-11-05T07:58:03Z solvables: 1454
rpm-md repo 'updates-modular' (cached); generated: 2023-01-03T01:27:52Z solvables: 1464
rpm-md repo 'updates' (cached); generated: 2023-02-10T00:30:00Z solvables: 18414
rpm-md repo 'fedora' (cached); generated: 2022-11-05T08:04:38Z solvables: 66822
rpm-md repo 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:group_kernel-vanilla:next' (cached); generated: 2023-02-08T20:43:20Z solvables: 99
rpm-md repo 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:group_kernel-vanilla:mainline-wo-mergew' (cached); generated: 2023-02-10T03:54:23Z solvables: 132
rpm-md repo 'coprdep:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:group_kernel-vanilla:fedora' (cached); generated: 2023-02-09T12:51:18Z solvables: 30
rpm-md repo 'coprdep:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:group_kernel-vanilla:stable-rc' (cached); generated: 2023-02-07T15:56:26Z solvables: 40
rpm-md repo 'coprdep:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:group_kernel-vanilla:stable' (cached); generated: 2023-01-21T14:43:13Z solvables: 0
rpm-md repo 'updates-archive' (cached); generated: 2023-02-10T00:59:42Z solvables: 23391
Resolving dependencies... done
Will download: 1 package (38,7 MB)
Downloading from 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:group_kernel-vanilla:mainline-wo-mergew'... done
Importing packages... done
Relabeling... done
Applying 4 overrides
Processing packages... done
Running pre scripts... done
Running post scripts... done
Running posttrans scripts... done
Writing rpmdb... done
Generating initramfs... done
Writing OSTree commit... done
Staging deployment... done
Freed: 191,3 MB (pkgcache branches: 0)
Upgraded:
  kernel 6.1.8-200.fc37 -> 6.2.0-0.rc7.20230208gt0983f6bf.251.vanilla.fc37
  kernel-core 6.1.8-200.fc37 -> 6.2.0-0.rc7.20230208gt0983f6bf.251.vanilla.fc37
  kernel-modules 6.1.8-200.fc37 -> 6.2.0-0.rc7.20230208gt0983f6bf.251.vanilla.fc37
  kernel-modules-extra 6.1.8-200.fc37 -> 6.2.0-0.rc7.20230208gt0983f6bf.251.vanilla.fc37
Added:
  kernel-modules-core-6.2.0-0.rc7.20230208gt0983f6bf.251.vanilla.fc37.x86_64
Use "rpm-ostree override reset" to undo overrides
Run "systemctl reboot" to start a reboot

$ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
...
Deployments:
  fedora:fedora/37/x86_64/silverblue
                  Version: 37.20230201.0 (2023-02-01T02:01:44Z)
               BaseCommit: 8c16620566268918906174992bfacfe41e9f47dd433393fa95e3439736961791
             GPGSignature: Valid signature by ACB5EE4E831C74BB7C168D27F55AD3FB5323552A
                     Diff: 4 upgraded, 1 added
           LocalOverrides: kernel-core kernel-modules kernel kernel-modules-extra 6.1.8-200.fc37 -> 6.2.0-0.rc7.20230208gt0983f6bf.251.vanilla.fc37
...

Rolling back

You can rollback to the previous deployment:

$ rpm-ostree rollback

or reset the overrides with:

$ rpm-ostree override reset kernel kernel-core kernel-modules kernel-modules-core kernel-modules-extra

or reset all overrides:

$ rpm-ostree override reset --all