FlatImage
A hybrid of Flatpak sandboxing with AppImage portability
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A hybrid of Flatpak sandboxing with AppImage portability
Author: @ruanformigoni
Project Page: https://github.com/ruanformigoni/flatimage
Detailed Docs: https://flatimage.github.io/docs/
.pkg: ${PKG_NAME}-${BASE_DISTRO_IMAGE}
.pkg_type: flatimage
${SBUILD_PKG} : ${PKG_NAME}-${BASE_DISTRO_IMAGE}.flatimage
!#Examples
firefox-alpine.FlatImage --> Created using alpine as base BaseImage/RootFS
steam-cachyos.FlatImage --> Created using CachyOs as BaseImage/RootFS
librewolf-alpine-nix.FlatImage --> Created using alpine as BaseImage/RootFS with Nix on top of itHOST)Fuse: Required for mounting Filesystems & Images
Fonts: Required to display/render Non-English Chars, Emojis, Symbols etc.
Kernel User NameSpaces: Required for Sandboxing, Security & Performance
FlatImages have built-in sandboxing, check docs: https://flatimage.github.io/docs/cmd/perms/
WARNINGS
NEVER run strip, objcopy or any other binary rewriting tool as they will often just strip the squashfs|dwarfs archive, only preserving the runtime.
A typical .flatimage file is not a real elf binary, thus will not survive this process.
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