On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 01:50:21PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
What if we made the Toolbox container image just one more base image and
built it with ImageFactory?
- Integrated into the compose process
- Across all architectures
- No OSBS dependency
The main disadvantage is that it is no longer layered, so *if* you happen
to have the exact same Fedora image version around for some other reason (a
big if), you save a fraction of space:
Fedora 38 container - 71M compressed, 201M uncompressed
Toolbox add-on layer - 232M compressed, 753M uncompressed
Toolbox squashed - 291M compressed, 884M uncompressed
But generally seems like it would be a win. osbuild/kiwi/whatever can be
left as a separate project.
I would support this fully. ;)
It would make it a lot easier and then it wouldn't depend on the module
build pipeline.
kevin