On Monday, November 30, 2020 1:44:14 PM CET Neal Gompa wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 7:41 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 06:57, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> > >> * Miro Hrončok: > >> > >> > I was wondering whether it might be possible to use microdnf instead > >> > of dnf in the boostrap mock chroots. Since dnf depends on Python, > >> > using the boostrap mode now complicates upgrading Pythons to a newer > >> > version. > >> > >> Would it be possible to use rpm-ostree with a vendored RPM > >> implementation? That should provide even better isolation. > >> > > > > koji has a very strong idea of what it wants inside a chroot and what it > > does not (and may never) want. Getting rpm-ostree or other items to work > > inside of the koji mock interface is probably looking at a large project > > (going from how many other 'simple' things have ended up being much more > > complicated than expected by the original proposers). My usual way of > > figuring out how to make anything work in koji is to see what the oldest > > environment it needs to work on by a customer and see how I would do it in > > RHEL-5 (now maybe RHEL-6). > > Then that's easy: we define a list of packages that are needed to get > the package manager working, and Koji would just download and unpack > them with no script execution, then it would manually run some > predefined scripts and invoke the package manager after that.
Can you elaborate a bit more please? What is the practical difference between mock's bootstrap chroot and the manual technique you propose? Pavel > Aside from me doing this before to do RHEL 5 -> RHEL 7 upgrades by > hand, this is also the strategy used by the openSUSE Build Service to > work around this problem. > > > > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! > _______________________________________________ > buildsys mailing list -- buildsys@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to buildsys-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/buildsys@lists.fedoraproject.org > _______________________________________________ buildsys mailing list -- buildsys@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to buildsys-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/buildsys@lists.fedoraproject.org
