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Add concept of state overlays #3120

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Add concept of state overlays #3120

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  1. Add concept of state overlays 

    In the OSTree model, executables go in `/usr`, state in `/var` and
configuration in `/etc`. Software that lives in `/opt` however messes
this up because it often mixes code *and* state, making it harder to
manage.

More generally, it's sometimes useful to have the OSTree commit contain
code under a certain path, but still allow that path to be writable by
software and the sysadmin at runtime (`/usr/local` is another instance).

Add the concept of state overlays. A state overlay is an overlayfs
mount whose upper directory, which contains unmanaged state, is carried
forward on top of a lower directory, containing OSTree-managed files.

In the example of `/usr/local`, OSTree commits can ship content there,
all while allowing users to e.g. add scripts in `/usr/local/bin` when
booted into that commit.

Some reconciliation logic is executed whenever the base is updated so
that newer files in the base are never shadowed by a copied up version
in the upper directory. This matches RPM semantics when upgrading
packages whose files may have been modified.

For ease of integration, this is exposed as a systemd template unit which
any downstream distro/user can enable. The instance name is the mountpath
in escaped systemd path notation (e.g.
`[email protected]`).

See discussions in ostreedev#3113 for
more details.
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  2. build(deps): bump libglnx from aff1eea to b415d046 

    Bumps libglnx from `aff1eea` to `b415d046`.

For https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libglnx/-/merge_requests/52.

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