On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 4:06 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 08:55:03AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > This seems like overkill. Wouldn't the simplest valid installability > > test just be to test whether each subpackage *individually* could be > > installed? > > That's a really nice idea. > > > If we have 20 subpackages, just launch 20 separate minimal containers > > and see if `dnf install subpackageN` succeeds. Then it doesn't matter > > if there are conflicts; we know that at least installing that package > > directly will work. (Dependency resolution may pull in other > > subpackages of course, which is proving that it works properly.) > > I'm not sure if we actually want a container. Because if it's a container, > then we need _some_ packages inside. But that creates a problem for > some packages like cannot be just installed, but need to be swapped > with other packages. (systemd-standalone-*, coreutils-single, etc.) > I think it'd be more reliable to do something like > dnf install --enablerepo=/path/to/repo/with/updates > --sysroot=/var/tmp/inst-package1 /path/to/repo/with/updates/package1.rpm > dnf install --enablerepo=/path/to/repo/with/updates > --sysroot=/var/tmp/inst-package1 /path/to/repo/with/updates/package2.rpm > ... > > And to make this work reliably, the invocation of dnf should be > wrapped in 'bwrap' to set up /dev, /proc for the invocation. > > This should be quick and more reliable than the current tests, > even with no config. >
Sure, I oversimplified by saying "container", but I agree with your suggestion. That seems both simple and effective. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
