On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 3:36 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 29 Dec 2021 at 13:51, Gordon Messmer <gordon.mess...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 12/29/21 09:59, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> > The modern day case where /usr is read-only is inside a container and >> > you put an overlay or using some sort of linking to /var which is >> > read-write in case of reboots. >> >> >> Right, that makes sense. >> >> >> > To me this is like saying 'move everything into /usr but because its >> > volitile move it back into /var but in a sub-directory from where it >> > was so you can keep an image running.' In this case, this doesn't >> > sound like any savings and more of a headache of why did it corrupt >> > this time. >> >> >> But this doesn't. Why would you need to move the rpmdb? Users probably >> aren't installing rpm packages in containers at run time (particularly >> if /usr is read-only); installation typically happens when building the >> container image, at which point /usr isn't read-only. >> > Most of the containers I am dealing with are > Grab the base image, > Create a layer, and add the images you want, > Test and deploy the layered image. > Update that image over time. > > Theoretically people should build the thing from scratch every time but > instead you get someone downloading the base image which they have gotten an > OK to use, then adding the stuff they need, and then running with that for > YEARS because the person who built the first one left long ago and no one > wants to break the paycheck program again.
This is a very, very old problem: I was dealing with it with OS images 20 years ago. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-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/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
