Re: F39 Proposal: Make Toolbx a release-blocking deliverable and have release-blocking test criteria (System-Wide Change)

[Owen Taylor]

On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 11:52 AM Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:

>  Just a general answer/info here at the bottom of the thread...
>
>  I realize our container build pipeline is not great, but it's currently
>  working and I will keep it working until we replace it.
>
>  I agree we should replace it, and there's lots of options, but I don't
>  think this thread is the place to go back and forth about them.
>
>  I know of at least kiwi, osbuild, some other build systems that don't
>  fully exist yet, switching to use quay.io, osbs2 (based on openshift4),
>  and probibly others.
>  
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.

- Owen