On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Colin Walters <walt...@verbum.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016, at 04:17 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > > On 02/10/2016 12:42 PM, Clayton Coleman wrote: > > > Removing dnf would break most people who depend on fedora base images, > > > since installing new packages is the reason people depend on the > > > fedora base image. Creating a fedora base image would dnf is > > > interesting as a side project (fedora-minimal?) but I doubt would ever > > > see wide use in the community, because it would double or triple the > > > amount of work someone has to do to actually use the image. It would > > > appear to the user as if the fedora image is broken with very little > > > explanation, and not fit the common use people have for OS base > > > images. > > > > Well, we can do without DNF and RPM for OStree-built images, no? > > To be clear, Josh is talking about a demo I did at Devconf.cz: > https://twitter.com/cgwalters/status/696277020255350785 > Upstream code is in a PR: > https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/pull/209 > > However, it's *very* trivial to make "as small as current RPM packages > will let you" > images by simply doing `yum --installroot` + `docker load`. > > See: > https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree-toolbox/blob/master/src/py/rpmostreecompose/docker_image.py > which weighs in at 100 lines of Python. (There's lots of variants out > there of this) > > What the "rpm-ostree container" approach does is basically squash together > the package manager aspect into the image management, with all of the > caching/efficiency wins that come from that. > > Then it's possible to export > it into a tarball which can be wrapped into a docker image that could > be pushed directly to a Docker registry, rather than indirectly loading > it into the system daemon which does the push. > > Unlike yum and the docker daemon, also this all runs as non-root. > > Can I build a higher layer on top of that? -- Daniel Riek <r...@redhat.com> * Sr. Director Systems Design & Engineering * Red Hat Inc, Tel. +1-617-863-6776
