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. Zbyszek -- _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
