A custom Linux system (NixOS) for running Dividat Play.

See the documentation for more information.

Running nix build will create following (in result/):

• bin/: Tools
• playos-VERSION-UNSIGNED.raucb: RAUC bundle that can be used to update systems. Note that it is signed with a dummy development key. Real deployments would resign the bundle with rauc resign.
• playos-installer-VERSION.iso: Bootable ISO image that can install the system.
• disk.img: Preinstalled disk with bootloader, system partitions A/B and data partitions for testing (but without test instrumentation).

For quicker development cycles you may pass following arguments to the build:

• buildInstaller: Should the installer ISO image be built.
• buildBundle: Should the RAUC bundle be built.
• buildDisk: Should the preinstalled disk image be built.
• buildLive: Should the PlayOS live system image be built.

For example: nix build --arg buildInstaller false --arg buildBundle false will only build the system toplevels and the preinstalled disk image.

A virtual machine (with test instrumentation) can be started without any of the above builds.

A helper is available to quickly start a virtual machine:

make vm && ./result/bin/run-playos-in-vm

See the output of run-playos-in-vm --help for more information.

Update bundles are hosted on Amazon S3. The script bin/deploy-playos-update will handle signing and uploading of bundle.

The arguments updateUrl (from where updates will be fetched by PlayOS systems), deployURL (where bundles should be deployed to) must be specified. For example: nix build --arg updateUrl https://dist.dividat.com/releases/playos/master/ --arg deployUrl s3://dist.dividat.ch/releases/playos/master/.

Commonly used update and deploy URLs (channels) can be used with shortcuts defined in the Makefile.

To release an update to the develop channel:

make develop
./result/bin/deploy-playos-update --key PATH_TO_KEY.pem

When switching key pairs on a channel, the new certficiate must be built into the bundle, which must then be signed with the old key. For this purpose, the --override-cert option of the deploy script is needed to provide RAUC with a certificate matching the new key.

Update the change log for every release. See http://keepachangelog.com/ for formatting and conventions.

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This software contains portions from other open-source projects.

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