Koji Cleanup

John Florian john.florian at dart.biz
Fri Nov 6 15:28:11 UTC 2015


> On 11/05/2015 02:07 PM, John Florian wrote:
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> > Also, perhaps related, can somebody explain to me how the --scratch
> > affects spin-livecd jobs?
> 
> Without --scratch Koji will verify that every RPM that was installed
> in the image is "known" by the Koji instance. That means either built
> there, or as part of an external repository associated with a tag.
> - --scratch images can include RPMs that were built locally or
> downloaded randomly on the internet.
> 
> - --scratch builds are subject to a more aggressive garbage collection
> policy and are put on a different part of the filesystem to
> distinguish them. They live in /mnt/koji/scratch.
> 
> Without --scratch the provided kickstart file must be from a source
> control manager too, it cannot be submitted from a local copy.
> 
> - - Jay

Jay, thank you for that very detailed answer.  That helps my understanding immensely.
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John Florian


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