On Thursday, August 18, 2022 4:01:39 PM CDT Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Greetings everyone.
> 
> Many years ago mock introduced and then made default it's isolation to
> use systemd-nspawn instead of chroot. Shortly after the nspawn isolation
> was added, it was used in fedoraproject koji builds, but there were
> issues and since then the fedoraproject koji has defaulted to using
> chroot isolation.
> 
> Releng has had a ticket open for a long time to switch
> ( https://pagure.io/releng/issue/6967 )
> 
> I think the two items listed there (kernel bind mounts and loop devices)
> have long since been fixed, so I would like to propose we switch rawhide
> to using nspawn and see if any other issues show up.
> 
> If everyone is ok with it, I can enable it (just for rawhide) and we can
> look for issues with composes or any other items. At least then we would
> have a good list of things we would like to fix. If it turns out things
> just work ok we can leave it enabled.
> 
> I think moving to this will:
> * More closely match developers local test mock builds.
> * Provide better isolation for builds
> * Help with resources as systemd-nspawn is a lot more cgroup aware than
> chroot
> * Allow us to close a 5 year old ticket. ;)
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> kevin

Yes please!

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