ostree.repo — OSTree repository configuration and layout
An OSTree repository is structurally similar to a git repository; it is a content-addressed object store containing filesystem trees. However, unlike git, ostree is designed to store operating system binaries. It records the Unix uid and gid, permissions, as well as extended attributes.
A repository can be in one of three modes;
bare, which is designed as a hard
link source for operating system checkouts,
bare-user, which is like
bare but works on systems that
run as non-root as well as non-root containers, and
archive-z2, which is designed for
static HTTP servers.
There is a system repository located at
/ostree/repo. If no repository
is specified -- either by a command-line option or the
OSTREE_REPO environment variable --
the ostree as well as many API
calls will use it by default.
The only user-editable component is the
config file. For more
information, see ostree.repo-config(5).