Aurora gap catchup — Jan–Mar 2026

[castrojo]

Aurora gap catchup — Jan–Mar 2026

The cone people never slow down, so I did an analysis of where we're behind and sent a bunch of PRs/fixes to bluefin. I wanted to file it here on the board so it lands in the reports:

Work items

Priority	Item	Domain	Status
p0	fix: remove sssd-passkey to fix silent ostree update failures	packages	merged — upstream PR 4356
p1	feat(ci): add DNF package cache to reusable build workflow	gha	merged — upstream PR 4359
p1	feat(ci): enable zstd:chunked OCI compression	gha	closed — already present in upstream
p1	chore(ci): add Sigstore build attestations to all build workflows	gha	merged — upstream PR 4369
p1	feat(security): commit cosign public keys locally	security	pending
p2	feat(ci): add validate-just workflow for Justfile syntax checking	gha	closed — already present in upstream
p2	feat(packages): add gvfs and gvfs-fuse	packages	closed — already present in upstream
p2	feat(ci): upload OCI archive artifact for PR contributor testing	gha	open — upstream PR 4379
p2	feat(packages): add fcitx5-chewing and fcitx5-m17n	packages	closed — not applicable to Bluefin
p2	fix(packages): remove ROCm from nvidia-dx images / add autofs	packages	merged — upstream PR 4370
p2	chore(just): remove SUDO_DISPLAY from Justfile	just	open — upstream PR 4377
p2	fix: clear all versionlocks in clean-stage.sh	build	open — upstream PR 4376
p2	chore: remove framework-laptop kmod install	build	open — upstream PR 4378
p3	fix(ci): grant contents:write to generate-release jobs	gha	merged — upstream PR 4371
p3	chore: remove obsolete ublue-fix-hostname service	oci	closed — already absent in upstream

Cut items (out of scope)

• /run /tmp leak fix — Bluefin clean-stage.sh already handles /tmp; Aurora fix is entangled with Containerfile.in (CPP preprocessor) which Bluefin does not use.
• Scorecard hardening — both files are functionally identical; only cosmetic cron/digest differences.
• Artifact retention — lands as part of the OCI archive upload item above.
• bash-preexec typo fix (Aurora PR 1955) — Bluefin does not fetch bash-preexec; not applicable.
• rpm-ostreed.conf workaround (Aurora PR 1873) — Bluefin already ships system_files/shared/etc/rpm-ostreed.conf; revisit if the same issue appears.
• tesseract-devel (Aurora PR 1788) — excluded per maintainer decision.