Issue #12105: Please provide a container image variant with `dnf5-plugins` in it - releng

releng

#12105 Please provide a container image variant with `dnf5-plugins` in it

Closed: Fixed a year ago by praiskup. Opened a year ago by praiskup.

The Mock utility uses the bootstrap_image feature to significantly speed up RPM package builds (instead of re-installing the bootstrap chroot from scratch using dnf). The tooling that's needed in Mock's bootstrap chroot is basically dnf5 builddep command (implies dnf5-plugins).

Currently, there are two variants: the Base (the default) container where we do not have dnf5-plugins, and the Toolbox variant (that contains dnf5-plugins, but contains just too many other packages).

Option1: Could we add dnf5-plugins into the Base container?

Option2: Could we have a new Variant called, e.g. MockBootstrap, pushed to the registry as fedora-mock-bootstrap:<version>? No problem to make it a separate layer on top of the Base image.

When? It would be nice to have a solution soon; dnf5 is the default in F41+, and the default Mock builds can be made significantly faster with this proposal.

If we cannot complete your request, what is the impact?
Not sure - we will have to use the Toolbox container (if applicable), but Mock build would download image of size ~350MB instead of ~150MB

praiskup commented a year ago

Possible Kiwi config patch:

Commit:     Pavel Raiskup <praiskup@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Wed May 15 08:32:33 2024 +0200

    Add dnf5-plugins into the generic container

    [root@ba1ab1388008 /]# dnf5 install dnf5-plugins  --setopt=install_weak_deps=False
    ...
    Total size of inbound packages is 2 MiB. Need to download 2 MiB.
    After this operation 13 MiB will be used (install 13 MiB, remove 0 B).
    ...

diff --git a/teams/cloud/container.xml b/teams/cloud/container.xml
index 130b1b2..7118848 100644
--- a/teams/cloud/container.xml
+++ b/teams/cloud/container.xml
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@
                <package name="tar"/> <!-- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409920 -->
                <package name="vim-minimal"/>
                <package name="dnf5"/>
+               <package name="dnf5-plugins"/>
                <package name="glibc-minimal-langpack"/>
                <package name="tzdata"/>
                <package name="xz"/>