On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 7:41 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 06:57, Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)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.
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.
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