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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+repo/
+rootfs/
+delta-update-file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# ostree-demo
+
+roughing out a quick demo to try out ostree for deploying ubuntu
+
+# delta test - adding nethack
+
+    sudo ./make_rootfs.sh
+    sudo ./make_rootfs.sh with-app
+
+    sudo ./ostree_commit.sh rootfs/20250504.182708/
+    sudo ./ostree_commit.sh rootfs/20250504.183218/
+
+    sudo ./ostree_delta.sh rootfs^ rootfs
+
+    du -sh delta-update-file 
+    60K     delta-update-file
diff --git a/make_rootfs.sh b/make_rootfs.sh
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+#!/bin/bash -xe
+
+IMAGE_VERSION=$( date +%Y%m%d.%H%M%S )
+
+function unmount_pseudo_filesystems(){
+	set +e
+	for dir in dev sys proc; do umount -v "$root"/"$dir"; done
+	set -e
+}
+
+function on_exit(){
+	set +e
+	unmount_pseudo_filesystems
+	umount -v "$root"
+}
+trap on_exit EXIT
+
+root=rootfs/"$IMAGE_VERSION"
+
+mkdir -p "$root"
+
+# bootstrap the OS
+
+debootstrap noble "$root"
+
+for dir in /proc /sys /dev; do
+	mount --bind "$dir" "$root"/"$dir"
+done
+
+export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
+chroot "$root" locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
+
+chroot "$root" apt-get update
+
+# Install a kernel and bootloader
+
+chroot "$root" apt-get -y --no-install-recommends install linux-generic-hwe-24.04 grub-efi
+
+if [ "$1" == "with-app" ]; then
+	# Install an application
+	chroot "$root" apt-get update
+	chroot "$root" apt-get install -y software-properties-common
+	chroot "$root" add-apt-repository -y universe
+	chroot "$root" apt-get update
+	chroot "$root" apt-get -y install nethack-console
+fi
+
+
+# Cleanup
+
+chroot "$root" apt-get clean
+
+unmount_pseudo_filesystems
+
+rm -rf "$root"/dev/*
+rm -rf "$root"/var/lib/apt/lists/*
diff --git a/ostree_commit.sh b/ostree_commit.sh
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+#!/bin/bash -xe
+
+ROOTFS_DIR=$1
+
+[ ! -d repo ] && \
+	ostree --repo=repo init
+
+ostree --repo=repo commit --branch=rootfs "$ROOTFS_DIR"
diff --git a/ostree_delta.sh b/ostree_delta.sh
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+#!/bin/bash -xe
+
+FROM_REF=$1
+TO_REF=$2
+
+ostree --repo=repo static-delta generate --min-fallback-size=0 \
+	--filename=delta-update-file --from="$FROM_REF" "$TO_REF"