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post-pull pre-stage stage (update hooks)

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This relates to:

- https://github.com/containers/bootc/issues/128 (and https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/23065 )
- https://github.com/containers/bootc/issues/632
- https://github.com/containers/bootc/issues/610

Basically...I think it'd be a powerful general feature if we supported a flow that did:

- Pull new image (but without queuing a new bootloader entry)
- Run arbitrary code from the *new* image as a container
- Only on success, queue new bootloader entry

One simple way to do this would be to define a new `bootc-pre-stage.target` systemd unit that we run in between what currently happens when one types `bootc upgrade`.

This would be a clearly very powerful general mechanism that would allow implementing things like "logically bound container images" outside of bootc core code itself. A base image (or user code) could define which container images to pull via whatever mechanisms and file format it wants.

One could do arbitrary things like check compatibility (relates to #632 and #610)

The downside of course is that being so general, it'd be easy to use for things that would probably be best done elsewhere. I think we'd still eventually want higher level and more declarative/opinionated mechanisms for some of the problems here (especially the container binding one).

(This also tangentially relates to https://github.com/containers/bootc/issues/2 in that it'd probably be a bit more elegant if we internally split up bits of the bootc upgrade process internally into units)

But...in ostree we already merged e.g. which is currently a very special case.

Actually, a notable detail here is that `bootc-pre-stage.target` as proposed would get mutable access to the *current* `/etc` and the global `/var`, i.e. it'd be ordered before `ostree-finalize-staged.target`.

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