On Wed, Mar 8, 2023, at 11:39 AM, Troy Dawson wrote:
I'm wondering if the Alternative Images SIG[1] is the SIG you need. We were thinking of doing containers, but it was farther down on the list of things to get working. The containers we were thinking of were "desktop" containers. Where the application would be something graphical, or even possibly a whole desktop. But I could see being able to create bootc containers with the same infrastructure, once it get's setup.
At the current time, the container images being built here are using `rpm-ostree compose image` which is mainly oriented for bootable containers. Though nothing stops one from using it for non-bootable containers such as these too
One thing our SIG does not do is create/build packages. I'm not seeing you say you need new/rebuilt packages. Do you need new/altered packages?
The https://github.com/containers/bootc is project is a net-new package right now. I'd like to manage it in a similar fashion to podman. Today, there is a https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/rhcontainerbot/bootc/ COPR but which is under the same "rhcontainerbot" namespace as is used by podman developers.
podman is shipped in RHEL though, whereas bootc is not (yet).
I think though the SIG would probably do builds in the same way as other SIGs like hyperscale for the RPMs.
Or does everything get done via the setup scripts and configs?
The less bash scripts the better...almost all of the net-new code is Rust here.