On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 3:51 AM Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> * Neal Gompa:
>
> > Well, technically, the correct thing to do would be for Mock to
> > support downloading bootstrap images to speed up bootstrap. These
> > images could be regularly produced by Fedora infrastructure and made
> > available on the mirror network for all targets we support as a
> > project. They'd be useful for COPR too, as then it can permanently
> > switch to bootstrap mode.
>
> I don't think this could work because there too many different
> buildroots nowadays, and building and storing the bootstrap images would
> take too much resources.
>

Bootstrap images are thankfully quite simple, as they just need to be
enough to run rpm+dnf. That makes them relatively consistent.

> And if build images are the future, perhaps podman integration is the
> answer.  Although the image distribution protocol is probably the worst
> part of Docker.
>

Anything involving OCI is probably not the answer here, since that
whole system depends on the brain-damaged OCI specification.



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