Re: F43 Change Proposal: Release of Greenboot Rust Rewrite (self-contained)

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On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 08:01:14AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 11:08:07PM +0100, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce wrote:
> > Wiki - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Greenboot_RS_Change_Proposal
> 
> > == Summary ==
> > A rewrite of Greenboot written in Rust will be released, designed for
> > use with bootc and rpm-ostree based systems. This Greenboot release
> > will have the same functionality as the original Bash release, which
> > was only intended for rpm-ostree based systems.
> 
> > Greenboot consists of two packages: `greenboot` and
> > `greenboot-default-health-checks`. The former, `greenboot` comprises
> > all the core functionalities of Greenboot. This includes checking
> > provided scripts and binaries, rebooting when required scripts or
> > binaries fail, and rolling back to a previous deployment if the
> > problem remains unsolved. The second package,
> > `greenboot-default-health-checks`, contains a series of optional
> > health checks curated and provided by the Greenboot maintainers.
> > 
> > A Greenboot execution begins on boot with
> > `greenboot-healthcheck.service`, which runs before systemd's
> > `boot-complete.target`. It launches `/usr/libexec/greenboot/greenboot
> > check`, which runs the `required.d` and `wanted.d` scripts.
> 
> There is a significant overlap between the systemd framework for this,
> i.e. boot-complete.target, and the greenboot framework. Greenboot
> *partially* ties into the systemd framework, at least by ordering
> before boot-complete.target, but it also partially sidesteps it, by
> managing the reboot itself. Since you're investing new work into
> this, would it be possible to remove this duplication? It'd definitely
> be beneficial for users to have a _single_ documented framework for
> this, with a uniform interface on all systems. Also, obviously with
> less duplicated work, we can have one system that works better.

Bump.

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